The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel (Large Print)

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Title The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Colson Whitehead
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 209,Width 142
Category/GenreLarge Print
Trade Publishers Large Print
All Dates
Historical
ISBN/Barcode 9781984892249
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Trade Publishers Large Print
Imprint Random House Large Print
NZ Release Date 16 July 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. Elwoods only salvation is his friendship with fellow delinquent Turner, which deepens despite Turners 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 Elwoods ideals and Turners 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 generations best (Entertainment Weekly). Look for Colson Whiteheads bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!