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
โ Scribed by Colson Whitehead
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385545355
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โฆ 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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****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
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
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****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