Colson Whitehead — The Nickel Boys

London, Fleet, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first UK edition of Colson Whitehead's 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning novel, signed by the author. First UK edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A novel based on the historic Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated for over one hundred years and was revealed as highly abusive. Judges of the Pulitzer 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." Written by Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead, an American novelist, and one of only four writers ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.