Colson Whitehead — The Nickel Boys

London, Fleet, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, signed by the author Colson Whitehead. The first UK edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. Named one of TIME's best books of the decade, and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this is the follow-up to Whitehead's celebrated 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Underground Railroad', making Whitehead the fourth writer in the award's history to win the prize for literature twice. Judges of the prize called the novel 'a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption&apos. It is based on the real story of a Florida reform school that operated for 111 years and had its history of abuse exposed by a university investigation. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. A couple of small faint marks to the front of the dust wrapper, which is otherwise very smart and bright. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.