Colson Whitehead. Stated first edition. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket designed by Oliver Munday. Hardcover: Fine. New York: Doubleday, 2016. Black cloth with white spine. No markings or writing in the book, appears unread, 306 pp.
The metaphoric underground railroad of history is a physical railroad with riding stock and stations in the novel, while the heroine's journey's intersects important junctures in the history of slavery.
Whitehead won a National Book Award (2016), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017) and many other awards for his wonderful novel.
Only four writers have won two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead.
