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'The Nickel Boys' is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller 'The Underground Railroad', in which he dramatises another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school...

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enrol in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is en...

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 Jr to heart: He is 'as good as anyone.' Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high...

'The Nickel Boys' is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller 'The Underground Railroad', in which he dramatises another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school...

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 Jr to heart: He is ‘as good as anyone.’ Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high...

'The Nickel Boys' is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller 'The Underground Railroad', in which he dramatises another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school...

'The Nickel Boys' is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller 'The Underground Railroad', in which he dramatises another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school...