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The Nickel Boys, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020
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The Nickel Boys

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020

Fleet

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020

Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020

Time #1 Novel of the Year 2019

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Author of 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 1960s 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
clear-sighted 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'.

In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical,
emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a
brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists
is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious
environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us
in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new
friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the
only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their
oppressors.

The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a
decision which will have decades-long repercussions.

Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one
hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of
children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great
American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality
of the United States.

'If greatness is excellence sustained over time, then without question,
Whitehead is one of the greatest of his generation. In fact, figuring his age,
acclaim, productivity and consistency, he is one of the greatest American
writers alive' Time

'A commanding triumph' Sunday Times

'Every chapter hits its mark' New York Times
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