Colson Whitehead — The Nickel Boys

London, Fleet, 2019 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first UK edition of Colson Whitehead's 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning novel. The signed UK first edition, first impression of this novel from American writer Colson Whitehead, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Signed by Whitehead 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 price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptionally clean and bright. Internally, firmly bound. Signed by author to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.