The Underground Railroad: Colson Whitehead - Brossura

Whitehead, Colson

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ISBN 10: 0349726809 ISBN 13: 9780349726809

Casa editrice: Hachette Collections, 2021

Riassunto

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

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Informazioni sull?autore

Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include <i>The Nickel Boys</i>, <i>The Underground Railroad</i>, <i>The Noble Hustle</i>, <i>Zone One</i>, <i>Sag Harbor</i>, <i>The Intuitionist</i>, <i>John Henry Days</i>, <i>Apex Hides the Hurt</i> and a collection of essays, <i>The Colossus of New York</i>. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. For <i>The Underground Railroad</i>, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for <i>The Nickel Boys</i>, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. <i>The Underground Railroad</i> has been adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 2021. He lives with his family in New York City.

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Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.

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 and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.

In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: 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, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates 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 the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.

Amazon Prime will be releasing the TV adaptation of The Underground Railroad worldwide on 14 May 2021.
It will be a 10 episode limited series starring Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon and Joel Edgerton. Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Sheila Atim, Amber Gray, Peter De Jersey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Damon Herriman, Lily Rabe, Irone Singleton, Mychal-Bella Bowman, Marcus "MJ" Gladney, Jr., Will Poulter and Peter Mullan round out the cast. Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) serves as showrunner and directs all ten episodes of the limited series. He executive produces alongside Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Richard Heus, Jacqueline Hoyt and Colson Whitehead.

The Underground Railroad is a production of Plan B, Pastel and Big Indie with Amazon Studios. Hachettewill be publishing a tie in edition on 29 April with this stunning artwork.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Hachette Collections
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0349726809
• ISBN 13: 9780349726809
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile