{"product_id":"the-nickel-boys-9780708899427","title":"The Nickel Boys","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA devastating novel - based on true events - of a hellish American reform school, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e comes \u003cb\u003eanother searing novel exploring America's racially troubled past . . . a real page-turner\u003c\/b\u003e * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA commanding triumph . . . brilliant and furious\u003c\/b\u003e . . . a lean, commanding page turner that provides the richest fictional experience of 2019 so far . . . the prose is so loaded with quicksilver wit, it holds you in its thrall. It is a novel that not only succeeds in character, plot and moral argument but lends grace to lives all too easily shattered . . . The compressed fury of Whitehead's writing is what propels the novel forward - he is one of only a handful of writers who is so brilliant you just want to feed him stories. He has a distinctive voice, at once cynical and compassionate, and his wry observations cut to the quick in ways that make other novelists look prissy or too anxious to please. There is barely a paragraph of \u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys \u003c\/i\u003ewithout some felicitous touch * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e[Whitehead] has produced yet another modern classic . . . He's also adept at creating characters of unforgettable flesh-and-blood immediacy, with even the swiftest pen portrait conveying the full weight of a lived history. \u003cb\u003eQuietly and purposefully heartbreaking in its portrayal of the lifelong legacy of abuse, it is quite outstanding\u003c\/b\u003e -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForceful and tightly wrought .\u003c\/b\u003e . . Whitehead homes in on the way in which every action fits into a fully orchestrated whole, which is why I would wish everyone, black or white, to read this novel. \u003cb\u003eHe demonstrates to superb effect how racism in America has long operated as a codified and sanctioned activity intended to enrich one group at the expense of another\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eIf greatness is excellence sustained over time, then without question, Whitehead is one of the greatest of his generation. In fact, figuring his age, acclaim, productivity and consistency, \u003cb\u003ehe is one of the greatest American writers alive\u003c\/b\u003e * Time *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere's hardly a spare word in this book . . . Whitehead has a talent for creating ambiguous, complex scenes that fix in your memory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys \u003c\/i\u003efeels like a necessary fictional project, writing the blank or buried pages of US history; and it's done with virtuosity * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA furious, compassionate novel\u003c\/b\u003e whose final sleight of hand will twist deep in your gut -- Claire Allfree * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eA masterful piece of very human storytelling -- Nikesh Shukla * i *\u003cbr\u003eColson Whitehead's book is not a polemic, but in presenting the unconscionable history of this particular institution, keeping boys in solitary confinement or even burying them \"out the back\", he once again builds an allegorical history that resonates in the present -- Tim Adams * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eWhitehead renders a terrifying world in disarming terms, lovingly guiding his reader to recognize the lasting impact of a cruel era * Time *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSearing\u003c\/b\u003e . . . the story is masterfully told -- Duncan White * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eif there's a more powerful novel this year, I'd be very surprised * Reader's Digest *\u003cbr\u003eA tense, nervy performance, even more rigorously controlled than its predecessor. The narration is disciplined and the sentences plain and sturdy, oars cutting into the water. \u003cb\u003eEvery chapter hits its mark\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhitehead wields his mastery over character and narrative\u003c\/b\u003e in service of dramatising the Jim Crow era to piercing effect, following the lives of two boys sentenced to a brutal reform school in 1960s Florida * Time magazine (Best books of the decade) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys\u003c\/i\u003e is in conversation with works by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and especially Martin Luther King . . . \u003cb\u003eIt shreds our easy confidence in the triumph of goodness and leaves in its place a hard and bitter truth about the ongoing American experiment\u003c\/b\u003e * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaunting and haunted \u003c\/b\u003e. . . \u003cb\u003edevastating . \u003c\/b\u003e. . The book feels like a mission, and it's an essential one . . . he pulls off a brilliant sleight of hand that elevates the mere act of resurrecting Elwood's buried story into at once a miracle and a tragedy * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys\u003c\/i\u003e] has the hot breath of a true story. \u003cb\u003eIt also has a beautiful, unforgettable young hero who walks right off the page into your heart\u003c\/b\u003e . . . If you have been thinking you should read Colson Whitehead, \u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect place to start * Newsweek *\u003cbr\u003eThe best American novel I read this year was \u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys\u003c\/i\u003e by Colson Whitehead, \u003cb\u003ea story of courage, cruelty and perversion\u003c\/b\u003e, set in a Southern reform school in the early 1960s. Not comfortable reading, but compelling -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eWhitehead's most emotionally resonant novel to date . . . he allows us to feel, and to ache, too * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eWhat elevates Whitehead's treatment of race and American brutality is the elegance of its style and the satisfying inventiveness of its form * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eWhitehead lays bare the brutality of recent US history and the legacy its victims carry to the bitter end * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys \u003c\/i\u003elifts the lid on the racist brutality of reform schools in the Jim Crow-era south * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA masterful novel . . . will floor you * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eNot a moment is wasted, and for someone who writes as vividly as Whitehead, there's also a graceful economy here. He uses words carefully, as if he doesn't want them to get in the way of the truths he's excavating * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003eWhitehead's brilliant examination of America's history of violence is a stunning novel of impeccable language and startling insight * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpare and unforgettable\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ann Patchett * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eTackles a subject more recent than slavery but just as heart-wrenching . . . Based on a true story, \u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys \u003c\/i\u003eis a haunting account of young lives whose promise was cut cruelly short * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs extraordinary as everyone says\u003c\/b\u003e -- Richard Osman * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eHeartbreaking, but also very gripping -- Nick Hornby * Good Housekeeping *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083565572439,"sku":"9780708899427","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780708899427.jpg?v=1725549343","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nickel-boys-9780708899427","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}