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Deacon King Kong

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By James McBride

By James McBride

By James McBride

By James McBride

By James McBride

By James McBride

By James McBride

By James McBride

By James McBride
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By James McBride
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    About Deacon King Kong

    Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
     
    Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

    One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”

    Oprah’s Book Club Pick

    Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

    A Washington Post Notable Novel

    From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.

    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.

    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.


    About Deacon King Kong

    Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
     
    Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

    One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”

    Oprah’s Book Club Pick

    Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

    A Washington Post Notable Novel

    From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.

    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.

    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.


    About Deacon King Kong

    Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
     
    Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

    One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”

    Oprah’s Book Club Pick

    Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

    A Washington Post Notable Novel

    From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.

    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.

    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.


    About Deacon King Kong

    Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
     
    Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

    One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”

    Oprah’s Book Club Pick

    Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

    A Washington Post Notable Novel

    From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.

    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.

    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.


    About Deacon King Kong

    Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
     
    Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

    One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”

    Oprah’s Book Club Pick

    Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

    A Washington Post Notable Novel

    From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.

    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.

    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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    James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the #1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water, and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna. He is also the author of Kill ’Em and Leave,… More about James McBride

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    About James McBride

    James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the #1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water, and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna. He is also the author of Kill ’Em and Leave,… More about James McBride

    About James McBride

    James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the #1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water, and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna. He is also the author of Kill ’Em and Leave,… More about James McBride

    About James McBride

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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Feb 02, 2021 | 400 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780735216730

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Large Print | $30.00
    Published by Random House Large Print
    Mar 03, 2020 | 528 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780593171837

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Mar 03, 2020 | 384 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780735216723

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Mar 03, 2020 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780735216747

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    CD | $45.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Mar 03, 2020 | 840 Minutes | ISBN 9780593166970

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Mar 03, 2020 | 846 Minutes | ISBN 9780593166987
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    Praise for DEACON KING KONG:
     
    “A mystery story, a crime novel, an urban farce, a sociological portrait of late-1960s Brooklyn: McBride’s novel contains multitudes… He conducts his antic symphony with deep feeling, never losing sight of the suffering and inequity within the merriment.” —The New York Times, Top 10 Books of 2020
     
    “Shouldn’t we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade’s Great American Novelist?…McBride has a way of inflating reality to comical sizes, the better for us to see every tiny mechanism that holds unjust systems in place.” —Los Angeles Times
     
    “A raucous, poignant, humanity-embracing novel.” —O, The Oprah Magazine, Top 20 Books of 2020
     
    “A story of comedy and compassion.” —TIME, Top 10 Books of 2020
     
    “A boisterous, imaginative, tender foray into late- 1960’s Brooklyn.” —Entertainment Weekly, Top 10 Books of 2020

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