- FICTION / African American / General, History, Underground Railroad, Fiction
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.
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Grave, overwhelming, bleak and prestige.
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- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Colson Whitehead
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Biblioteka Akustyczna, Random House, Doubleday
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- Korean, English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780708898383
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. His works include his 1999 debut *The Intuitionist*; *The Underground Railroad* (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and *The Nickel Boys*, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. **Source**: [Colson Whitehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead) on Wikipedia.
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