The Nickel Boys
of Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
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Winner of the 2020 Pulizer Prize for FictionIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwoodâs only salvation is his friendship with fellow âdelinquentâ Turner, which deepens despite Turnerâs conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwoodâs ideals and Turnerâs skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.
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- Format E-book
- Pages 213 pages
- Publisher Doubleday
- Publication Date July 16th 2019
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Florida (United States)']
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