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The Underground Railroad

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(400 Pages)
Product Number: LP3969
Released: 01 Feb, 2017
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781510057630
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans. When Caesar, a fellow slave, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. The Underground Railroad is a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, but 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.

Author(s): Colson Whitehead
Original Publish Date: 01 Feb, 2017

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MP3 CD
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Author(s): Colson Whitehead
Narrator(s): Bahni Turpin
Product Number MPCD3061
Released: 01 Sep, 2017
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510087811
CD
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Author(s): Colson Whitehead
Narrator(s): Bahni Turpin
Product Number CX4089
Released: 01 Sep, 2017
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510087804
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Author(s): Colson Whitehead
Narrator(s): Bahni Turpin
Product Number D5659
Released: 01 Sep, 2017
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510087828

Professional reviews

"A magnificent, wrenching and thrilling tour de force, chronicling a young slave's journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. “Reaches the marrow of your bones, settles in and stays forever.” OPRAH WINFREY “Leaves the reader with a devastating understanding of the terrible human costs of slavery, […] with echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.” NEW YORK TIMES"

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