03746cam a2200397 4500 406303227 TxAuBib 20191013120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781524736286 1524736287 9a39b9d8-1d61-468c-b00a-6f31eaddf28c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2534225 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Whitehead, Colson, 1969- The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club) [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 295MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 295MB. HTML:<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South</b><br /> Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.<br /> In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.<br /> Like the protagonist of <i>Gulliver's Travels,</i> Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. <i>The Underground Railroad</i> is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. African American Fiction. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Notable Books for Adults. 10 Best Books of 2016. National Book Award. Audie Award Nominee. Pulitzer Prize. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2019-12-13 22:00:03. Turpin, Bahni. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2534225-TheUndergroundRailroad(Oprah'sBookClub).mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9a39b9d8-1d61-468c-b00a-6f31eaddf28c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2534225-TheUndergroundRailroad(Oprah'sBookClub).mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9a39b9d8-1d61-468c-b00a-6f31eaddf28c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)