The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

earliest edition we have, 2019 Doubleday, 2019 213 pages

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 e...

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Editions we hold

Nickel Boys edition · 2022 · LGF · 264 pages · 9782253935025
NICKEL BOYS (French Edition) edition · 2020 · VOIR DE PRES · 9782378282622
Die Nickel Boys edition · 2020 · btb Verlag · 9783442770427
Los chicos de la Nickel edition · 2020 · Random House · 9788439735892
The Nickel Boys edition · 2020 · Anchor Canada · 9780385693981
Nickel Boys edition · 2020 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 224 pages · 9780708899427
Los chicos de la Nickel edition · 2020 · Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial · 224 pages · 9781644732700
The Nickel Boys paperback · 2020 · Anchor · 224 pages · 9780345804341
Nickel Boys edition · 2019 · Diversified Publishing · 352 pages · 9781984892249
Nickel Boys edition · 2019 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 224 pages · 9780708899410
Nickel Cocuklari paperback · 2019 · Siren Yayinlari · 216 pages · 9786055903800
The Nickel Boys edition · 2019 · Doubleday · 213 pages · 9780385537070

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