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Doubleday, 2016-08-02. Hardcover. Acceptable. 103x18x152.

Doubleday, 2016-08-02. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.2598 in x 9.5669 in x 6.5748 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Doubleday. Good+ with no dust jacket. 2016. hardback. 0385542364 . Pulitzer Prize Winner; 9.6 X 6.5 X 1.4 inches; 320 pages .

Doubleday, 2016-08-01. hardcover. Very Good. Ships within 24 hours!Hardcover with clean dust jacket, tight binding, clean pages, minor shelf wear. Light stain to edge.

Doubleday, 2016. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, 2016-08-02. First edition ninth printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. Dj lightly worn & toned with an Oprah Book Club label on front panel in a mylar cover.

Doubleday, 2016. Later. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Minor spot to bottom edge, else tight and clean. DJ shows minor rubbing.

UsedGood. Shows minimal wear such as frayed or folded edges, minor rips and tears, and/or slightly worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages.

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.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.Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, 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. The Underground Railroad 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.