Colson Whitehead in conversation about his new novel, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday Books).
Praise for Colson Whitehead:
“It's a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch, pursue, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year.” — Esquire on Zone One
"The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." — Walter Kirn, Time on The Intuitionist
“[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imagination. His reputation is likely to soar.” — Ishmael Reed, The Washington Post Book World on John Henry Days
About The Underground Railroad:
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her — but they manage to find a station and head north.
Colson Whitehead in conversation about his new novel, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday Books).
Praise for Colson Whitehead:
“It's a book you want to read rather than one you should read…while still providing the chilling, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch, pursue, hunger. . . . One of the best books of the year.” — Esquire on Zone One
"The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." — Walter Kirn, Time on The Intuitionist
“[Whitehead] takes on a multitude of issues with a rich and probing imagination. His reputation is likely to soar.” — Ishmael Reed, The Washington Post Book World on John Henry Days
About The Underground Railroad:
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned — Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her — but they manage to find a station and head north.
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