The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01J6D153M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 266 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. 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.. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Tho
Sherry Thorn said Things we were never taught in school. I chose this book, frankly, because Oprah chose it for her book club. As a lower middle class white child, educated in the '60's, I was well aware of the segregated south, but I had no idea the depth of the degradation and depravity of what people of color had endured in this country. The land of the free, home of the brav. A powerful, astonishing novel that finds more truth in its magical realism than a literal story ever could have allowed Josh Mauthe If all Colson Whitehead’s remarkable The Underground Railroad had to offer was its central conceit – in which the “Underground Railroad,” a covert, loose organization that worked to help slaves in the Confederacy get to freedom, becomes a literal subterranean rail network – that might almost b. LOVED THIS. So in full transparency LOVED THIS. So in full transparency, I was skeptical about it, because as a U.S. history major, I have read so many books about slavery, I just wasn't sure what Whitehead could possibly do that would be fresh, enthralling, unique to the genre and subject matter. Let me tell you something. I was up late, gripping this book,