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Paperback The Shooting of Rabbit Wells: A White Cop, a Young Man of Color, and an American Tragedy Book

ISBN: 1628725958

ISBN13: 9781628725957

The Shooting of Rabbit Wells: A White Cop, a Young Man of Color, and an American Tragedy; with a New Introduction by the Author

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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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
if you knew rabbit, you knew what the book was saying.

my husband knew rabbit. the book covered as much as william loizeaux could tell. there was a great part missing from the book. we are hoping that the author contact several other friends of rabbit's and do a sequil. There is just so much more to tell of this young lad whose life was ended so young and yet so drastically.

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I knew everyone there !

I just finished reading The Shooting of Rabbit Wells by William Loizeaux. I finished it in a few hours !! It was of particular interest to me because I grew up in Bernardsville and I knew just about everyone mentioned in the book, especially , the victim, Rabbit..... the book traces his pitiful life from the day he was born and I learned alot about him I never knew from our fleeting friendship. I met Rabbit when he was a Bonnie...

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Lovingly dedicated? a wondrous, inventive landmark.

In his ravishing new book, "The Shooting of RabbitWells", author William Loizeaux stuns the reader with hismasterful, risky, and innovative blend of forms that create a stirring recount of a very real tragedy. Any reader who has lived in the last thirty years, will recognize the turning points of our lives, that contributed to the 1973 killing in Bernardsville, New Jersey, of a mixed-race man named Rabbit Wells. "The Shooting...

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