{"product_id":"hog-butcher-9780810129887","title":"Hog Butcher","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt'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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstantly recognized as a gritty classic when it was first published in 1966, \u003ci\u003eHog Butcher \u003c\/i\u003ewas later adapted for the 1975 film \u003ci\u003eCornbread, Earl and Me. \u003c\/i\u003eThis new edition brings back into print Fair's startlingly relevant indictment of Chicago's inequalities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fair, Ronald L.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810129887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Ronald L. Fair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39674387726411,"sku":"9780810129887","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_bc3a4666-aa98-494c-8a4d-a53e491018ec.jpg?v=1644932497","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/hog-butcher-9780810129887","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}