The Shooting of Rabbit Wells
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The Shooting of Rabbit Wells by William Loizeaux
What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? This moving account is more timely than ever. On a frigid winter's night in 1973, William Rabbit Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by a white policeman named William Sorgie outside a bar in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The shooting, later ruled an accident, stunned local residents and the nation. For thirty years, author William Loizeaux, who went to high school with Rabbit, hasn't been able to forget what happened. With clear-eyed compassion and unsparing honesty, The Shooting of Rabbit Wells re-creates the lives of both victim and killer, and the forces that brought them together. At the story's center is Rabbit Wells himself. Part African-American, part Cherokee, part white, Rabbit never knew his father and was neglected by his mother. Here is a memoir, a biography, and the story of a writer's search for the scattered remains of a catastrophe. A stirring and powerful document, it is also a work of terrible beauty: by giving us the life of Rabbit Wells, Loizeaux makes us understand--and feel--how unacceptable and irreparable the loss was, and how deeply the bullet that killed him is lodged in the American identity.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781628725957 |
| ISBN 10 | 1628725958 |
| Title | The Shooting of Rabbit Wells |
| Author | William Loizeaux |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-09-29 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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