{"product_id":"shooting-of-rabbit-wells-book-william-loizeaux-9781628725957","title":"The Shooting of Rabbit Wells","description":"What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? This moving account is more timely than ever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Shooting of Rabbit Wells\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395657240849,"sku":"CIN1628725958G","price":11.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1628725958.jpg?v=1750831691","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/shooting-of-rabbit-wells-book-william-loizeaux-9781628725957","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}