The Nickel Boys

基本信息

Format Paperback | 224 pages

Dimensions 132 x 203 x 16mm | 245g

Publication date 30 Jun 2020

Publisher Anchor Books

Language English

Edition Statement Reprint

ISBN10 0345804341

ISBN13 9780345804341

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

小说通过两名生在Jim Crow的佛罗里达州男孩被判在一所噩梦般的学校就读展开。

Here is Colson Whitehead’s bravura follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, The Underground Railroad. The Nickel Boys brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

It’s the early 1960s, and as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee, the young, deeply principled Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to heart: he is “as good as anyone.” He is about to enroll in the local black college, but for a black boy in the Jim Crow South, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials 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 on to 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 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. Based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for more than a century and scarred the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, riveting narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.

作者简介

科尔森·怀特黑德（Colson Whitehead），小说作家，普利策小说奖两次获得者。

COLSON WHITEHEAD is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Underground Railroad, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.