- Fiction, African American teenage boys, Adolescence, Large type books
The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in AmericaThe year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan.
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Classical in form, warm, character-led and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Colson Whitehead, Mirron Willis
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846552540
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. His works include his 1999 debut *The Intuitionist*; *The Underground Railroad* (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and *The Nickel Boys*, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. **Source**: [Colson Whitehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead) on Wikipedia.
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