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New York: Doubleday. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 2016. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 306 pp., Winner of the National Book Award. .

NY: Doubleday. 2016. fine. Hardcover. ISBN:9780385542364 31st ptg. 306 pages; contents clean & tight; Nat'l Book Award winner / Winner of the Pulitzer Prize on il'd dj .

Doubleday, August 2016. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable/Good. Boards have shelf wear. Dust jacket has shelf wear.

Doubleday, 2016. Hardcover. As New. Disclaimer:An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: 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.

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 306 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. Light bump at heel of spine.

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.

Clean, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Spine solid with slight lean. Dust jacket clean with no rips or creases. Not a remainder.

Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.