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The Nickel Boys written by Colson Whitehead which was published in July 16, 2019. You can read this before The Nickel Boys PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. The Nickel Boys is a strictly realist work, albeit still ripe with Whitehead’s signature deadpan wit. . . . The heart of The Nickel Boys is this extended dialogue between Elwood and Turner . . . [and] often feels like Whitehead’s conversation with both the idealistic forerunners of the civil rights generation and, by implication, the woke youth of today. Like perhaps his single greatest influence, Ralph Ellison, Whitehead negotiates a tightrope walk between the need to depict the experience of race and racism and a stubborn individualistic resistance to the claims of collective identity.

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This book starts with an archaeological dig at a now closed boys’ reform school. This is a stroke of genius. The period being disinterred is not some ancient native American site nor white settlers’ site from centuries ago; it is a mere fifty years old and brings home the proximity of the crime the book goes on to expose to the light. From the offset The Nickel Boys shows how the Nickel school is a condensed version of America and that the two – school and nation – coexist, each feeding, and feeding on, the same racist poisons as the other. Mr Whitehead has composed an arresting canvas of a “reform” school – no, institution; there is nothing resembling education or reform in the place – run and staffed by sadists with the connivance and sometimes willful ignorance of the ” good ” local grandees. Corruption by staff and by the beneficiaries of the boys’ unpaid labour is rife. The violence is more hinted at than stated so we are left to focus on the moral and societal factors, not distracted by a verbal bloodbath. Elwood, the central character, is a bright and decent boy of African/American descent sent to this appalling institution for an offence for which he did not have the necessary mens rea – he didn’t know the car he was being given a lift in was stolen. Noone cared and Elwood, for his first and only offence is sent to Nickel School for reform. He was and remained a moral, free thinking, philosophical, bright kid who rides out his incarceration and sufferings with moral rectitude and a naiive belief in Martin Luther King’s exhortation to love your oppressor. He was let down by his parents, by his lawyer and, eventually by the inspection team sent into Nickel School towards the end of the book.

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Novel Title: The Nickel Boys(Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel
Author: Colson Whitehead
Genre: Historical African Fiction, Black & African American Literary Fiction, U.S. Historical Fiction
Publish Date: 16 July 2019
Size: 1 MB
Format: PDF
Status: Avail for Download
Price: Free