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THE NICKEL BOYS - COLSON WHITEHEAD (HÖRBUCH)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER This follow-up to The Underground Railroad
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. One of the most gifted
novelists in America today. NPRWhen 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 bestselling new novel  Harlem Shuffle!

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