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The Nickel boys / Colson Whitehead ; herausgegeben von Klaus Amann
Ditzingen : Reclam, 2020
Reclam XL ; 19979 - Reclam XL Englisch. Text und Kontext
Titolo e contributi: The Nickel boys / Colson Whitehead ; herausgegeben von Klaus Amann
Pubblicazione: Ditzingen : Reclam, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 286 p. ; 17 cm
Serie: Reclam XL ; 19979 - Reclam XL Englisch. Text und Kontext
ISBN: 9783150199794
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Guinea-Bissau
Abstract: 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. Elwoods only salvation is his friendship with fellow delinquent Turner, which deepens despite Turners 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 Elwoods ideals and Turners skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades..
