The Nickel Boys & The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2 Books Collection Set - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set:
The Nickel Boys
The Underground Railroad

Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780708899427 (The Nickel Boys), 9780708898406 (The Underground Railroad)
Publisher: Fleet
Age Range: Adult

Overview
This two-book paperback collection brings together Colson Whitehead's landmark novels The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, each a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Together they trace two devastating strands of American history, from the horrors of slavery to the abuses of a segregation-era reform school, in prose praised for its precision, empathy and moral force. A must-own set for readers of serious literary and historical fiction.

About the Books
In The Underground Railroad, Whitehead reimagines the historic network of abolitionists and safe houses as a literal railway running beneath the Southern soil. Cora, a young enslaved woman on a Georgia plantation, seizes the chance to escape with fellow slave Caesar, only to find that each state she reaches conceals its own version of oppression, while the ruthless slave catcher Ridgeway closes in behind her. The novel won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and was adapted into a Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.

The Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis, a black teenager in 1960s Tallahassee who, despite his belief in the ideals of Dr Martin Luther King, is wrongly sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory that hides systemic abuse behind a respectable façade. His friendship with the more cynical Turner becomes his lifeline, but the boys' opposing views on how to survive a corrupt system set in motion consequences that echo across decades. Inspired by the real-life Dozier School for Boys in Florida, the novel earned Whitehead his second Pulitzer Prize, making him one of only four authors ever to win the award twice.

• Two Pulitzer Prize-winning novels from a modern American literary master
• Brand-new paperback copies, perfect for gifting or building a collection
• Ideal for book clubs, history lovers and fans of powerful, character-driven fiction
• Includes The Underground Railroad, adapted into an acclaimed Prime Video series
• Explores pivotal, under-told chapters of African American history
• Compact set that's easy to read in either order

About the Author
Colson Whitehead is an American novelist and the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. He is one of only four writers to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, for The Underground Railroad (2017) and The Nickel Boys (2020); The Underground Railroad also won the National Book Award. Whitehead is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. He lives in New York City.

Why You'll Love This Set
Two unforgettable, prize-winning novels in one collection - urgent, beautifully written and essential reading for anyone who wants fiction that confronts history head-on while never losing sight of its characters' humanity.

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