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title: "The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Hardcover – Big Book, 16 July 2019"
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# The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Hardcover – Big Book, 16 July 2019

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## Customer Reviews

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    I expected more...
  

*by I***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2020*

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I really don't understand why all the fuss about this book. This year I decided to be a bit more harsh with my book ratings, so this one gets a 3/5. Yes, it talks about the times when the racial segregation was still strong. And it talks about the Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory known for its cruelty and few kids that spent some parts of their loves there.It is a story based on similar institutions that were led in 1960's and 1970's, and I do get that some horrible, horrible things were happening at that kind of 'schools at the time'. I really respect Mr. Whitehead to open the topic to the public and start a discussion about what was really happening in America in those years. But I do miss some feelings in this book. Because I'm an emotional reader and to love a book I have to love it's characters, have to feel their emotions and have to care for their actions. And I just didn't have any of it here. Maybe I am weird, maybe I am cold, I don't know. But for me, it felt more like I'm reading a history manual rather than a historical fiction novel.

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    Grossly over hyped
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2019*

As so often, the critics have misled me. Bought in advance of release on the strength of the reviews. Long winded and tedious. The presumably true backdrop is grim. The fictional rendering is uninteresting.

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    Literary food for the soul, heart and the brain. 4.5*
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2019*

Publication day for the long awaited new Colson Whitehead novel, finally arrived!The Nickel Boys is an emotive and thought provoking title. The novel is loosely based around a real life true case of systemic abuse at a borstal type facility in 1960s America. Whilst the novel deals with themes of physical/emotional/sexual abuse, it does so in a sensitive manner. Only using scenes of violence to portray the fear within the boys and the complete and utter control their abusers have over them.The novel is set in 1960s America the fight for civil rights is a backstory within the boys lives. But unfortunately equal rights will not come quick enough for Elwood and Turner. The boys come from very differing backgrounds, although both have known the emotional pain of abandonment and loss. Despite their different out looks on life, they instantly bond at the Nickel Academy. Their friendship will be the only saving grace during their time of detainment.How do you follow-up a title as powerful as The Underground Railroad? How do you ever emulate a title that has had such global appeal and massive success?Colson Whitehead has picked a real life part of history and used it to display how institutional racism gives way to abuse and even murder.Life at the Nickel Academy is one of brutalisation, humiliation and loss of power for the boys detained there. How anyone can ever conceive that this environment would enable young men to make the changes they need, one can never truly know.What the boys need is love, acceptance and a chance to learn. But there is NONE of that at the Nickel Academy.I haven’t included any quotes in this review, as the title is only 208 pages. I raced through them at breakneck speed. leaving no time for note taking. Colson Whitehead has an exceptional way with words and there were many opportunities to quote moving passages.The Nickel Boys is a hard-hitting title which is perfect for book groups, debate and discussion. I have a feeling it will stay with readers for a long time after the closing pages are finally turned!Literary food for the soul, heart and the brain. 4.5*

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