Deacon King Kong
A Novel
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Dominic Hoffman
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James McBride
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Brought to you by Penguin.
Chosen by Barack Obama as a favourite read of 2020.
The New York Times best seller and Oprah's Book Club Pick.
From the winner of a National Book Award and author of The Good Lord Bird, soon to be a TV series starring Ethan Hawke.
The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball team.
The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from Sportscoat's best friend - Hot Sausage - to the local Italian mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the stalwart ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church.
Deacon King Kong is a book about a community under threat, about the ways people pull together in an age when the old rules are being rewritten.
It is very funny in places, and heartbreaking in others. From a prize-winning storyteller, this New York Times best seller shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, and that the communities we build are fragile but vital.
©2020 James McBride (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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"Deacon King Kong is deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane; McBride's ability to inhabit his characters' foibled, all-too-human interiority helps transform a fine book into a great one." (The New York Times Book Review)
"A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year's best novels." (The Washington Post)