Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)
A Novel
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2020
Summary
From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird—a captivating novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting in a Brooklyn housing project.
In September 1969, a broken-down former church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffled into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in South Brooklyn, pulled out a .45, and in front of everybody shot the neighborhood drug dealer at point-blank range.
The reasons for this burst of viol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593171837 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593171837 |
| Author: | James McBride |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 27mm |
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About The Author
James McBride
James McBride
James McBride is an accomplished musician and the author of the National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird, the bestselling American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ‘Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal, McBride is also a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University.
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