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The Nickel Boys
Hardcover | 224 pages
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Time,Ā Esquire,Ā The Washington Post,Ā The Guardian,Ā Slate, NPR,Ā Entertainment Weekly,Ā Vox,Ā Variety,Ā Christian Science Monitor,Ā The Minneapolis Star Tribune,Ā TheĀ Dallas Morning News,Ā Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINEāS 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 #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestsellerĀ 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. Elwoodās only salvation is his friendship with fellow ādelinquentā Turner, which deepens despite Turnerās 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 Elwoodās ideals and Turnerās skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children,Ā The Nickel BoysĀ is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.
Time,Ā Esquire,Ā The Washington Post,Ā The Guardian,Ā Slate, NPR,Ā Entertainment Weekly,Ā Vox,Ā Variety,Ā Christian Science Monitor,Ā The Minneapolis Star Tribune,Ā TheĀ Dallas Morning News,Ā Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINEāS 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 #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestsellerĀ 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. Elwoodās only salvation is his friendship with fellow ādelinquentā Turner, which deepens despite Turnerās 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 Elwoodās ideals and Turnerās skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children,Ā The Nickel BoysĀ is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.
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Hardcover | 224 pages
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Time,Ā Esquire,Ā The Washington Post,Ā The Guardian,Ā Slate, NPR,Ā Entertainment Weekly,Ā Vox,Ā Variety,Ā Christian Science Monitor,Ā The Minneapolis Star Tribune,Ā TheĀ Dallas Morning News,Ā Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINEāS 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 #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestsellerĀ 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. Elwoodās only salvation is his friendship with fellow ādelinquentā Turner, which deepens despite Turnerās 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 Elwoodās ideals and Turnerās skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children,Ā The Nickel BoysĀ is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.
Time,Ā Esquire,Ā The Washington Post,Ā The Guardian,Ā Slate, NPR,Ā Entertainment Weekly,Ā Vox,Ā Variety,Ā Christian Science Monitor,Ā The Minneapolis Star Tribune,Ā TheĀ Dallas Morning News,Ā Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINEāS 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 #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestsellerĀ 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. Elwoodās only salvation is his friendship with fellow ādelinquentā Turner, which deepens despite Turnerās 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 Elwoodās ideals and Turnerās skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children,Ā The Nickel BoysĀ is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.
