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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     First Chapter Excerpts                 Summary       More by this author     Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.     Subjects     Abuse of administrative power -- Fiction.     African American boys -- Abuse of -- Fiction.     African American teenagers -- Fiction.     Racism -- Fiction.     Reformatories -- Fiction.     African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction.     Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.       by title:      The Nickel boys : a ...         MARC Display

The Nickel boys : a novel / Colson Whitehead. by Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author. Subjects Abuse of administrative power -- Fiction.   African American boys -- Abuse of -- Fiction.   African American teenagers -- Fiction.   Racism -- Fiction.   Reformatories -- Fiction.   African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction.   Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) -- Fiction. Publisher Info:  New York : Doubleday, [2019] ©2019 Edition:  First edition. Description:  213 pages ; 22 cm RDA Types:  text unmediated volume ISBN:  9780385537070 0385537077 9780345804341 0345804341 9780385537087 (eBook) 9780385693967 Format Book:  Summary:  1960s Florida. Kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood Curtis is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South, one mistake is enough to destroy the future. He 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 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." He meets Turner, who knows that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. A decision creates repercussions that will echo down the decades. -- adapted from jacket No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Marion Public Library Main Floor Fiction Area WHITEHEAD Colson Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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