Hog Butcher: A Novel (Chicago Lives) - Softcover

Fair, Ronald L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810129884 ISBN 13: 9780810129887

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

It&;s summer on the South Side of Chicago, and ten-year-old boys Earl and Wilford are frequently courtside watching their role model Nathaniel &;Cornbread&; Hamilton as he prepares to leave for college on a basketball scholarship. Their world comes crashing down in an alley when two cops&;one white, one black&;mistake Cornbread for a fleeing burglary suspect. What follows threatens to tear apart the community. Earl and Wilford know what happened, but will they stand up for their hero in a city in which power trumps justice, and each player must decide whether to fold to the system, or risk losing it all?

Instantly recognized as a gritty classic when it was first published in 1966, Hog Butcher was later adapted for the 1975 film Cornbread, Earl and Me. This new edition brings back into print Fair&;s startlingly relevant indictment of Chicago&;s inequalities.

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RONALD L. FAIR was born in Chicago in 1932 and published his first novel, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable, in 1965. His other novels include We Can&;t Breathe (1972), winner of the Best Book Award from the American Library Association. He lives in Lappeenranta, Finland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0810129884
• ISBN 13: 9780810129887
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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