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The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is based on the historic Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years and was revealed as highly abusive.
- Colson Whitehead
- 2019
Nickel Boys is an upcoming American historical drama film based on the 2019 novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. It was directed by RaMell Ross , who co-wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes , and stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor , Ethan Herisse , Fred Hechinger , Hamish Linklater , Brandon Wilson, and Daveed Diggs .
The Nickel Boys is a novel written by Colson Whitehead, published in 2019. Set in the 1960s, the story unfolds in the fictional Nickel Academy, a reform school in Florida. The novel follows the life of Elwood Curtis, an Black teenager who, despite his aspirations for a brighter future, finds himself at Nickel Academy after a misunderstanding.
16 de jul. de 2019 · Amazon.com Review. An Amazon Best Book of July 2019: Based on a real school for boys that closed in Florida in 2011 after more than one hundred years in existence, Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Academy is the kind of institution that purports to rebrand bad boys into good young men.
- Colson Whitehead
- $13.39
- Doubleday
16 de jul. de 2019 · 247,740 ratings23,963 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2019) Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida.
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The Nickel Boys Summary. Next. Prologue. During an “environmental study,” a team of archaeologists unearths a secret graveyard on the grounds of what used to be Nickel Academy, a reform school that recently closed. Because the bodies are largely unidentified, the state of Florida is forced to reopen investigations into the many “abuse ...
Portanto, é mediante esta perspectiva que o leitor acompanha o protagonista: Elwood Curtis, um jovem negro, estudioso e de boa índole que é declarado delinquente e enviado ao Nickel Academy depois de um mal entendido a caminho de seu primeiro dia de aula na Universidade Aulas.
