The Nickel boys a novel
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Jackson, JD, narrator.
Published
[Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape ;, [2019].
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chester Public Library - Adult Book on CD | BCD Whitehead | On Shelf |
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Book on CD | Whitehead | On Shelf |
Gardiner Library - Adult Book on CD | BCD WHI | On Shelf |
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Book on CD | AUDIO CD Whi | On Shelf |
Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Book on CD | Whitehead | On Shelf |
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Published
[Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape ;, [2019].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
9781984891396
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.5, 10 Points
Level 6.5, 10 Points
Notes
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
Title from disc label.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by the author and JD Jackson.
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning 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 Jim Crow-era Florida. 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 to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Whitehead, C., & Jackson, J. (2019). The Nickel boys: a novel . Books on Tape ;.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Whitehead, Colson, 1969- and JD, Jackson. 2019. The Nickel Boys: A Novel. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Whitehead, Colson, 1969- and JD, Jackson. The Nickel Boys: A Novel Books on Tape, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Whitehead, Colson, and JD Jackson. The Nickel Boys: A Novel Books on Tape ;, 2019.
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