THE NICKEL BOYS - COLSON WHITEHEAD

Libro

Editorial	RANDOM HOUSE
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Nivel	.
Autor	WHITEHEAD COLSON
ISBN	9780345804341
Peso ( kg )	0,229
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2020
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	THE NICKEL BOYS When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood's only salvation is his friendship with fellow "delinquent" Turner, which deepens despite Turner's conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and "should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" Entertainment Weekly . COLSON WHITEHEAD Colson Whitehead is the author eight novels and two works on non-fiction, including The Underground Railroad, which received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Heartland Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Hurston-Wright Award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel is being adapted by Barry Jenkins into a TV series for Amazon. Whitehead's The Nickel Boys received the Pulitzer Prize, The Kirkus Prize, and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Edad recomendada: Adultos. WHITEHEAD COLSON Nació en 1969 en Nueva York. Finalista del PEN Hemingway con su primera novela, La intuicionista 2000, 2022 , ha publicado media docena de novelas y el libro El coloso de Nueva York 2005 . En lengua española también se han publicado Zona Uno 2012 y El ferrocarril subterráneo 2017 . Esta última fue merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2017, del National Book Award 2016, de la Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence y del Indies Choice Book Award 2017, además de convertirse en un best seller internacional. A El ferrocarril subterráneo le siguió Los chicos de la Nickel 2020 , considerada una de las diez mejores novelas de la década pasada según la revista Time y que le ha hecho merecedor de un segundo Pulitzer, honor que comparte con John Updike, William Faulkner y Booth Tarkington. Sus dos últimas novelas son El ritmo de Harlem y Manifiesto criminal, que forman parte de su tríptico sobre Harlem. Colson Whitehead es profesor en las universidades de Columbia y Princeton, y ha recibido las becas Guggenheim y MacArthur.
Cantidad de páginas	224
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001