As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to en
The nickel boys: a novel
✍ Scribed by Colson Whitehead
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385545355
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✦ Synopsis
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller 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.****
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called The Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in...
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As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to en
****In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1** ***New York Times*** **bestseller** ***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 this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1** ***New York Times*** **bestseller** ***The Underground Railroad*****, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school
**_*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_ * **** ** In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1**** *New York Times** __ *bestseller** ***The Underground Railroad** __ *, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of
Prix Pulitzer 2020 Dans la Floride ségrégationniste des années 1960, le jeune Elwood Curtis prend très à cœur le message de paix de Martin Luther King. Prêt à intégrer l’université pour y faire de brillantes études, il voit s’évanouir ses rêves d’avenir lorsque, à la suite d’une erreur judiciaire,