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AuCNLKIN |
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20240123100152.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
be2019027401 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780708899434 (paperback) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1109750250 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
APLS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
APLS |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
813.6 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Whitehead, Colson, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2541 |
| 245 14 - TITLE |
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| Title |
The Nickel boys / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Colson Whitehead. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Fleet, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
211 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this bravura follow-up to the 2017 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. |
| 586 ## - AWARDS NOTE |
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| Awards note |
Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.<br/> |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Abuse of administrative power |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
African American boys |
| General subdivision |
Abuse of |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Racism |
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Fiction. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Reformatories |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
African Americans |
| General subdivision |
Civil rights |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Historical fiction. |
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1749 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
African American teenagers |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
African Americans |
| General subdivision |
Segregation |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Reformatories |
| Geographic subdivision |
Florida |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Racism |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Race relations |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Florida |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Bildungsromans. |
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lcgft |
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232 |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Historical fiction |
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30 |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |
