Name: | The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) |
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By: | Colson Whitehead |
Narrated by: | JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead |
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Length | 6 hrs and 46 mins |
Category: | Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction |
Release Date: | 2019-07-15 |
Language: | English |
The United States. The Nickel Boys is an American novel that tells the story of two African-American boys who are sent to a reform school in the Jim Crow South.
The Nickel Boys is a novel by Colson Whitehead. It tells the story of two young black boys who are sent to a reform school in Florida in the 1960s. The novel is based on the true story of the Dozier School for Boys, which was closed in 2011 after it was revealed that dozens of boys had been abused and killed there.
The Nickel Boys is a novel by Colson Whitehead that tells the story of two boys at a reform school in Florida in the 1960s. The novel is based on the true story of the Dozier School for Boys, a reform school that was shut down in 2011 after it was revealed that students had been abused and even killed while in attendance. The novel follows the story of Elwood Curtis, a black boy who is sent to the Nickel Academy after being caught stealing a car, and Turner Smith, a white boy who is sent to the school after being accused of setting fire to a white family’s home. The two boys form a friendship at the school, and they eventually escape and go on a journey to find freedom. The novel ends with the boys being caught and returned to the Nickel Academy, where they are both killed.
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