The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: The Underground RailRoad
ISBN: 0385542364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385542364
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent 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 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.

Автор: Whitehead Colson
Название: Underground Railroad
ISBN: 0708898394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780708898390
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: 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

Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: Zone One
ISBN: 0099570149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099570141
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

Автор: Whitehead, Colson
Название: John Henry Days
ISBN: 0385498209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385498203
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Описание: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead's eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it's the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. It is also a high-velocity thrill ride through the tunnel where American legend gives way to American pop culture, replete with p. r. flacks, stamp collectors, blues men, and turn-of-the-century song pluggers. John Henry Days is an acrobatic, intellectually dazzling, and laugh-out-loud funny book that will be read and talked about for years to come.

Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: John Henry Days
ISBN: 1841155705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841155708
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the author of `The Underground Railroad`, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. `John Henry Days` is a novel of extraordinary scope and mythic power. It established Colson Whitehead as a pre-eminent American writer of our time.

Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: The Intuitionist
ISBN: 0708898475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780708898475
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad.