The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim-Crow-era Florida.
Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.
Product details
Publisher : Fleet (31 July 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0708899439
ISBN-13 : 978-0708899434
Item Weight : 300 g
Dimensions : 15.2 x 2.2 x 23.4 cm
Country of Origin : India
Generic Name : Book
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