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Deacon King Kong [sound recording] : a novel
Published [2020] by Penguin Audio, [New York]
ISBN 9780593166970
Bib Id 2417075
Copyright 2020
Edition Unabridged.
Description 12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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04349cim a2200733Ii 4500
ISBN
9780593166970 (12 compact discs) $45.00
0593166973
International Article Number
9780593166970
Publisher Number
PRHA 9516
DD48792
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SCD McBride
Title
Deacon King Kong [sound recording] : a novel
Edition
Unabridged.
Publication Information
[2020] by Penguin Audio, [New York] :
Copyright Date
©℗2020
Description
12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note
Title from container.
Compact discs.
Performers
Read by Dominic Hoffman.
Summary
"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 .45 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. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"--
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Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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