The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Contributor(s): Whitehead, Colson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385537077 ISBN-13: 9780385537070 Publisher: Doubleday Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Literary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LCCN: 2018042961 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lexile Measure: 940 HL (High-Low) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" L (0.90 lbs) 224 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2019 pg. 61 Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2019 pg. 43 Publishers Weekly 02/11/2019 Booklist 03/01/2019 pg. 38 Shelf Awareness 07/16/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Description: 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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