Hog butcher
[by] Ronald L. Fair
Author: Fair, Ronald L.
Two young black boys are shaken from their world of play when they witness a murder
in a Chicago ghetto
New York,: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966], 182 p.
Notes:
Source of the film Cornbread, Earl, and Me. Also published under that title by
Bantam, 1975
Reviews for this Title:
Kirkus Reviews Roland Fair's Many Thousand Gone appeared last year, and the sorry
facts of life, black and white, black versus white, were brightened by the presence
of a wonderful old grandmother. Here two youngsters, Earl and Wilford, redeem
for the reader these proceedings which take place in Chicago's Negro ghetto--"concentration
camps without barbed wire." The story, firmer than in the first book, is
reducible to one incident; Cornbread, a great basketball player, ten feet tall
in the ten year old eyes of Earl and Wilford, is shot down by two police officers,
one black, one white, when running out of the local candy store. An altogether
unmotivated act. This is followed through the inquests where the old prejudices--
the old pressures-- silence what really happened and it is Wilford, "one
little black boy" who proves to be "the only goddam man in the whole
place." Fair is a very nice writer; he handles this with an eloquent economy
and certainly these boys will appropriate your sympathy. One could wish that the
readership deserved could be more readily designated.
(Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 1966)
Other titles associated with this book:
Cornbread, Earl, and me
ISBNs Associated with this Title:
0151417024 : Hardcover
Credits:
• Novelist/EBSCO Publishing
• Baker & Taylor
• Copyright 2005, VNU Business Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved
• Added to NoveList: 20050120
• TID: 131460
Many thousand gone ;: an American fable
by Ronald L. Fair
Author: Fair, Ronald L.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, c1965, 114 p.
Credits:
• Novelist/EBSCO Publishing
• Added to NoveList: 20050120
• TID: 131463
We can't breathe
[by] Ronald Fair
Author: Fair, Ronald L.
African American families go north to Chicago in the late 1930s hoping for a better
life and find slums with roaches but people who help each other.
New York,: Harper & Row, [c1972], 216 p.
ISBNs Associated with this Title:
0060112166
Credits:
• Novelist/EBSCO Publishing
• Baker & Taylor
• American Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and
Young Adults, published by Oryx Press
• Added to NoveList: 20050120
• TID: 131462
World of nothing;: two novellas
by Ronald L. Fair
Author: Fair, Ronald L.
New York,: Harper & Row, [1970], vii, 133 p.
Contents:
Jerome.--World of nothing.
Other Contributors:
Fair, Ronald L.
Credits:
• Novelist/EBSCO Publishing
• Added to NoveList: 20050120
• TID: 131461