The Nickel Boys

The Nickel Boys Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Colson Whitehead. The Nickel Boys. New York: Doubleday, 2019.
  • Allen, Greg. “Florida's Dozier School for Boys: A True Horror Story.” NPR, NPR, 15 Oct. 2012, https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162941770/floridas-dozier-school-for-boys-a-true-horror-story.

  • Alter, Alexandra. “Colson Whitehead's next Novel Tackles Life under Jim Crow.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 10 Oct. 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/books/colson-whitehead-new-novel-will-tackle-life-under-jim-crow.html.

  • Saldívar, Ramón. “The Second Elevation of the Novel: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative.” Narrative, vol. 21, no. 1, Ohio State University Press, 2013, pp. 1–18, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23321834.

  • Sehgal, Parul. “In 'the Nickel Boys,' Colson Whitehead Continues to Make a Classic American Genre His Own.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 11 July 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/books/review-nickel-boys-colson-whitehead.html.

  • Livingstone, Jo. “Colson Whitehead, American Escape Artist.” The New Republic, July 30, 2019, https://newrepublic.com/article/154550/colson-whitehead-american-escape-artist.

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