The Resource The Nickel boys : a novel, Colson Whitehead
The Nickel boys : a novel, Colson Whitehead
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- Summary
- In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning 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 of 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 their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385537070
- Label
- The Nickel boys : a novel
- Title
- The Nickel boys
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Colson Whitehead
- Subject
-
- trueHistorical fiction
- Reformatories -- Florida -- Fiction
- African American boys -- Abuse of -- Fiction
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueSex crimes
- trueJuvenile correctional institutions
- trueTorture
- trueTeenage abuse victims
- trueRacism
- African American teenagers -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Abuse of administrative power -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Racism -- United States -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American teenage boys
- trueAfrican Americans -- Identity
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction
- Florida -- Fiction
- trueCorruption
- Reformatories -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- African American teenagers -- United States -- Fiction
- trueKing, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968 -- Influence
- Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- truePsychic trauma
- trueFlorida
- trueEmotional abuse
- trueLife change events
- trueResistance (Psychology) in teenage boys
- African Americans -- Segregation -- United States -- Fiction
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning 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 of 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 their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy
- Summary
- Follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida
- Award
-
- Kirkus Prize for Fiction, 2018.
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2019.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2019
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10785442
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Whitehead, Colson
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3573.H4768
- LC item number
- N53 2019
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 940
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American teenagers
- Reformatories
- Racism
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Abuse of administrative power
- African American boys
- African American teenagers
- Racism
- Reformatories
- Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.)
- Florida
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Nickel boys : a novel, Colson Whitehead
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385537070
- Lccn
- 2018042961
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1051775497
- (OCoLC)1051775497
- Label
- The Nickel boys : a novel, Colson Whitehead
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385537070
- Lccn
- 2018042961
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1051775497
- (OCoLC)1051775497
Subject
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Abuse of administrative power -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- African American boys -- Abuse of -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican American teenage boys
- African American teenagers -- Fiction
- African American teenagers -- United States -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans -- Identity
- African Americans -- Segregation -- United States -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- trueCorruption
- trueEmotional abuse
- trueFlorida
- Florida -- Fiction
- Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueJuvenile correctional institutions
- trueKing, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968 -- Influence
- trueLife change events
- truePsychic trauma
- trueRacism
- Racism -- Fiction
- Racism -- United States -- Fiction
- Reformatories -- Fiction
- Reformatories -- Florida -- Fiction
- trueResistance (Psychology) in teenage boys
- trueSex crimes
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueTeenage abuse victims
- trueTorture
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAfrican American fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
Included in
- trueKirkus Prizes: Kirkus Prize for Fiction
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2019
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2019
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Fiction
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