Underground Airlines
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B017RQP41O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost.Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.. A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor's salvation. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all--though his true self remains buried,
A remarkable tour-de-force Joseph Guglielmelli A remarkable tour-de-force of an modern day America where slavery is still constitutionally permitted. It is an alternate history novel that belongs on the shelf along with such classics as Robert Harris' Fatherland with a protagonist that invokes such literary ancestors as Ellison's Invisible Man and Bigger Thomas.Winters tells a cracking good det. Great, but not quite transcendent. I came into this book without knowing anything about it -- I heard it recommended on Slate's Political Gabfest -- and I wanted to love it. I almost did; it certainly started well, but it didn't quite meet that initial promise. The writing is crisp, the dialog fluid, the exposition unforced. However, the plot didn't develop an arc that propelled me . An Excellent Study in World-Building and Race in America Joe K Underground Airlines is a powerful, well-written book doing what the best of its genre does: using the strange universe it creates to shed light on the truth of our own. In this case, Ben Winters does a fantastic job building a world in which the Civil War never happened due to the assassination of Lincoln as president-elect and in which slavery st
This trailblazing and well thought out novel plays the role of mystery-thriller while poignantly illuminating the many ways life today is more like Winters' alternative world than we may want to admit. --Penny Mann, The Book Review. Slavery has infected the United States, permeating the everyday lives of most Americans without much thought until a group of citizens come forward to try and make a difference. An Best Book of July 2016: A powerful look what might have been, Ben Winters creates an alternate reality based on the absence one of our most important historical events: The Civil War