Deacon King Kong: a novel
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.
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| Subject |
| Deacons > Baptists > Fiction. Drug dealers > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre |
| Audiobooks. Sound recordings. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781094290355
- Physical Description 1 audio media player (approximately 14 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
- Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2020]
- Copyright ℗2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. "HD." "Light." "Penguin Audio." Previously released by Penguin Random House LLC, 2́020. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Dominic Hoffman. |
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