Deacon King Kong / James McBride.
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 James McBride's funny, moving novel. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593166970
- ISBN: 0593166973
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (540 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Penguin Audio, 2020.
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General Note: | 03/03/2020. Compact disc. |
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Burlington Public Library | CD MCBRIDE FEB 2021 | 39851001548560 | Audiobook | Copy hold | Available | - |