The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: 6: Fight

6: Fight

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Colson Whitehead's electrifying Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Colson Whitehead's heart-breaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, read by Rhashan Stone. Today: Nickel prepares for its  annual boxing match...

Colson Whitehead's electrifying and heart-breaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, read by Rhashan Stone.

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. A hard-working student, whose future looks bright until an innocent and tragic mistake changes everything, and he ends up at the hellish Nickel Academy reform school.

Today: Nickel prepares for its annual boxing match, amid rumours of a fix...

Writer: Colson Whitehead
Reader: Rhashan Stone
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Richard Hamilton

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Colson Whitehead's electrifying novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida. Read by Rhashan Stone.

Colson Whitehead's electrifying Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, in which two boys find themselves at a hellish reform school. Read by Rhashan Stone.

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