The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel
By Colson Whitehead
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ISBN: 9781984891372
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly 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. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s 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 Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s 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 and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly). Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Harlem Shuffle, coming this September!
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Summary
Summary
New York Times bestseller
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize
Winner of an Alex Award
Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2020 Southern Book Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize
A 2020 Audie Award Finalist for Best Male Narration
A Barack Obama Reading List Pick
An Entertainment Weekly Best Books of the Year selection
A Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year selection
A Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year selection
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
A #1 Amazon.com bestseller in African American Literature
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
A BookPage Top Pick for August in Historical Fiction
A July 2019 LibraryReads Pick
A Literary Hub Pick of the Best Reviewed Books This Week
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Details
Details
Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD |
Category: | Fiction/Historical |
Runtime: | 6.77 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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