Underground Airlines
Autor Ben Wintersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iul 2017
The
bestselling
book
that
asks
the
question:
what
would
present-day
America
look
like
if
the
Civil
War
never
happened?
ANew
York
Timesbestseller;
a
Goodreads
Choice
finalist;
named
one
of
the
Best
Books
of
the
Year
by
NPR,
Slate,Publishers
Weekly,Hudson
Bookseller,St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch,
Kirkus
Reviews,
AudioFile
Magazine,and
Amazon
A
young
black
man
calling
himself
Victor
has
struck
a
bargain
with
federal
law
enforcement,
working
as
a
bounty
hunter
for
the
US
Marshall
Service
in
exchange
for
his
freedom.
He's
got
plenty
of
work.
In
this
version
of
America,
slavery
continues
in
four
states
called
"the
Hard
Four."
On
the
trail
of
a
runaway
known
as
Jackdaw,
Victor
arrives
in
Indianapolis
knowing
that
something
isn't
right--with
the
case
file,
with
his
work,
and
with
the
country
itself.
As
he
works
to
infiltrate
the
local
cell
of
a
abolitionist
movement
called
the
Underground
Airlines,
tracking
Jackdaw
through
the
back
rooms
of
churches,
empty
parking
garages,
hotels,
and
medical
offices,
Victor
believes
he's
hot
on
the
trail.
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
believes
himself
to
be
a
good
man
doing
bad
work,
unwilling
to
give
up
the
freedom
he
has
worked
so
hard
to
earn.
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
Airlinesis
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316261258
ISBN-10: 0316261254
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
ISBN-10: 0316261254
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
Notă biografică
Ben
H.
Wintersis
the
author
of,
most
recently,World
of
Trouble,the
concluding
book
in
the
Last
Policeman
trilogy.
The
second
book,Countdown
City,was
an
NPR
Best
Book
of
2013
and
the
winner
of
the
Philip
K.
Dick
Award
for
Distinguished
Science
Fiction.The
Last
Policemanwas
the
recipient
of
the
2012
Edgar
Award
from
the
Mystery
Writers
of
America;
it
was
also
named
one
of
the
Best
Books
of
2012
by
Amazon.com
and
Slate.
Recenzii
NOMINATED
FOR
THE
BEST
HARDCOVER
NOVEL
ITW
THRILLER
AWARD
A
FINALIST
FOR
THE
CHAUTAUQUA
PRIZE
"This one kept me up at night and changed the way I saw the world once I was finished."—Ann Patchett,Time
"This is one of the most thoughtful and inventive books I've read. Part alternate history and part detective novel,Underground Airlinescouldn't be more timely or thrilling. It's a page-turner with a big mission: to warn against placing our history on a dusty shelf. On every page is the spirit of Faulkner's quote-The past is never dead. It's not even past.Here, Winters takes America's legacy as a slaveholding nation all the way to its logical and terrifying conclusion."—Attica Locke, Edgar Award-nominated author of Bluebird, Bluebird
"An extraordinary work of alternate history . . . Indisputably a winner"—Maureen Corrigan,NPR
"Underground Airlinesis a masterful work of art with a gripping mystery at its most basic level. It's also a complex allegory woven throughout with sparking rich dialogue and multiple shades of awareness. Passengers, fasten your seat belts. The ride may be turbulent, but that's what makes it great."—Jen Forbus,Christian Science Monitor
"A swift, smart, angry new novel . . . Its vibrant imagination never slackens. . . . As a feat of world-building,Underground Airlinesis astonishing, immediately taking its place in the genre's very first rank."—Charles Finch,USA Today
"[Winters] paints a convincing picture of what fugitive life would look like in our own era... he wants to get us to see the past in the present-the innumerable ways that we still live in a world made by slavery."—Kathryn Schulz,The New Yorker
"An immersive thriller as well as a provocative alternative history, 'Underground Airlines' showcases a fully realized central character who believes his own disturbing past can be kept safely buried. But history has a way of bubbling to the surface of the present."—Jean Zimmerman,New York Times Book Review
"[A] striking work of speculative fiction . . . Winters creates a powerful and timely ethical framework for his fast-moving new thriller."—Jane Ciabattari,BBC
"Chilling"—Alexandra Alter,New York Times
"The
novel
succeeds
so
well
in
part
because
its
fiction
is
disturbingly
close
to
our
present
reality...
Winters
has
written
a
book
that
will
make
you
see
the
world
in
a
new
light."
"Like
Victor,
Winters,
who
is
white,
has
a
wonderful
ability
to
inhabit
different
characters...[and]
creates
a
believable
world
out
of
telling
details...The
voices
he
conjures
can
be
rough,
but
they
ring
true...As
the
book
twists
and
turns
to
its
conclusion,
only
one
thing
is
clear.
This
is
not
a
problem
that
will
be
easily
solved,
in
Victor's
world
or
in
ours."
—-
The
Boston
Globe"Ralph Ellison'sThe Invisible ManmeetsBlade Runnerin this outstanding alternate history thriller. . . . The novel's closing section contains several breathtaking reversals, a genuinely disturbing revelation, and an exhilarating final course of action for Victor."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Explosive, well plotted, and impossible to put down, this alt-hist by the Edgar Award-winning author of the "Last Policeman" trilogy will attract readers of all genres. . . . Fast paced and filled with menace, the story has an ambience that makes it special."—Library Journal (starred)
"A daring and very well constructed novel"—Booklist
"Astonishing . . . A timely novel focusing on race and equality . . . Winters handles the controversial topic with sensitivity, yet isn't afraid to ask some bold questions along the way."—BookPage
"[Underground Airlines] is powerful, suspenseful, and devastating-hard to put down, even harder to forget."—Family Circle
"Strange, modern . . . [A] genre-bending detective yarn"—Oprah.com
"This
is
a
smart
and
compelling
thriller,
set
in
an
alternate
reality
that
bears
an
uncomfortable
resemblance
to
our
own."
"Underground Airlinesis a masterwork of world-building...[the book] gives you an incredibly complex character to explore it with, ensuring that your attention is well-spent down to the last page."—- LitReactor
"A top-flight thriller that's as emotionally searing and tragically plausible as anything in contemporary fiction."—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
"The most timely of alternate history novels. Ben Winters has created a spellbinding world that forces the reader to look around-and to look within. This is a thriller not to be missed and one that will not be easily forgotten."—Hugh Howey, New York Times-bestselling author of Wool
"Underground Airlinesis bold, brilliant, and beautiful -- everything you could want from a novel, Ben Winters delivers ten-fold. He's a writer to watch, one of exceptional vision and imagination whose characters draw the reader in to the point that an alternate history seems not only plausible, but the only one that counts until the final page."—Michael Koryta, author of Those Who Wish Me Dead
"A rich noir in a terrifingly convincing alternate America. It's both beautiful and brutal.The Handmaid's Talefor Black Lives Matter."—Lauren Beukes, author of Broken Monsters and The Shining Girls
"Underground
Airlinesis
like
nothing
I
have
ever
read
before.
I
know
it
will
be
a
pivot
point
in
my
reading
life.
Thought
you'd
wrestled
sufficiently
with
the
stain
of
Slavery?
Have
a
seat.
You'll
only
need
the
edge.
By
spinning
a
pounding
thriller
in
a
past
that
did
not
happen,
Winters
has
somehow
wrapped
his
hands
around
the
catastrophe
that
did.
This
is
how
it
might
have
been,
I
kept
thinking,
if
history
had
gone
that
way.
But
the
moral
shock
at
the
heart
of
the
book:
Winters's
rabbit
hole
is
not
strange
enough,
the
gulf
between
that
and
this
is
not
wide
enough.
Underground
Airlines
does
what
all
great
speculative
fiction
wants
to
do
-
show
the
reader
that
Everything
is
possible.
That's
the
good
news
and
bad.
The
novel's
many-named
narrator
descends
from
Ralph
Ellison's
Invisible
Man
-
his
voice
is
mesmeric,
it
comes
from
any
corner,
it
can
boil
with
savagery,
sing
with
grace
or
do
pretty
much
anything
in
between.
Oh,
and
he
descends
from
Jason
Bourne
as
well;
he
has
mad
field
skills.
So
does
Winters.
You're
set
down
in
motion
on
a
tilted
mirror
and
then
it's
turn
after
gripping
turn
-
my
every
next
hour
depended
on
which
way
he
went."
—David
Shafer,
National
Bestselling
author
of
Whiskey
Tango
Foxtrot"It is a rare thing when a writer has a fresh new provocative idea - and then executes it beautifully. This is what Ben H. Winters has done in his novelUnderground Airlines. Imagine an America in which slavery still exists. Now imagine a dramatic telling of the story."—James Patterson
"Brilliantly written, terrifyingly conceived,Underground Airlineshad me from the first page to the last. Many writers might have been content to set a few characters loose in the middle of the kind of powerful premise - slavery in four states never ended -put to work here, but Winters gives us gripping plot, clear-eyed social commentary and chilling implications. This may be alternate history, but what it has to say about actual, enduring race and racism cuts awfully close to the 21st century American bone."—Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome
"Smart, quick and tricky, Ben Winters knows how to pull off a high-concept thriller. Fans ofThe Man in the High Castlewill loveUnderground Airlines."—Stewart O'Nan, author of The Speed Queen