The Nickel boys : a novel

Whitehead, Colson 1969- (author,, narrator.). Jackson, JD, (narrator.).

Summary: "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"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called The Nickel Academy... [It] is a grotesque chamber of horrors, where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to 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 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 with repercussions that will echo down the decades."--Container.

Item details

ISBN: 9781984891396
ISBN: 1984891391
ISBN: 9781984891372
ISBN: 1984891375
Physical Description: sound disc
6 audio discs (approximately 7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape, [2019]
Copyright: ℗2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Title from container. Compact discs.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by the author (acknowledgments) and JD Jackson.

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