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THE NICKEL BOYS - COLSON WHITEHEAD GEBUNDEN

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Time  Esquire  The Washington
Post  The Guardian  Slate  NPR  Entertainment Weekly  Vox  Variety  Christian Science Monitor 
The Minneapolis Star Tribune  The Dallas Morning News  Literary Hub  BuzzFeed  The New York
Public Library NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE OF
TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR
THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 In 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. 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.

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