The Nickel Boys (Signed First Edition)

Colson Whitehead

ISBN 10: 0385537077 / ISBN 13: 9780385537070

Published by Doubleday, New York, 2019

About this Item

Doubleday, New York, 2019. First edition. First printing, with full number line to 1. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A tight clean unread copy with price ($24.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by Whitehead on the title page (as pictured). 2019 National Book Award Nominee, Longlist for Fiction. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2020. Source for the 2024 film of the same name. HWD/Copies.

Seller Inventory # S-HRWD-3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Nickel Boys (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385537077
• ISBN 13: 9780385537070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Pulitzer Prize

About this title

Synopsis

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARDŽ FOR BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTED BY ACADEMY AWARDŽ NOMINEE RAMELL ROSS

When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.

Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly).

About the Author

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.

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