{"product_id":"nickel-boys-winner-2020-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction","title":"Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• This follow-up to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \"One of the most gifted novelists in America today.\" —NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD® FOR BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTED BY ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE RAMELL ROSS \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Nickel Boys\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e(Entertainment Weekly).\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100531691805,"sku":"9780345804341","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780345804341.jpg?v=1750797301","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/nickel-boys-winner-2020-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}