Barcode	Vorbestellungen	Mediengruppe	Signatur
Barcode: 0001518672	Vorbestellungen: 0	Mediengruppe: Hörbuch-CDs	Signatur: TD.FE Nic

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual, and moral training" so that the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men."

In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr. King´s ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks that Elwood is worse than naive, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood´s ideals and Turner´s skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo down the decades.Based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousends of children, THE NICKEL BOYS is a devasting, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers.