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Deacon King Kong

Barack Obama Favourite Read & Oprah's Book Club Pick

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From the author of THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE. . .
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Chosen by BARACK OBAMA as a favourite read
TOP TEN books of the year, NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD winning author


'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic.' JOYCE CAROL OATES

'Deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane.' JUNOT DIAZ

'Among the greatest American storytellers of our time.' BOOKPAGE

'A modern day Mark Twain' NYT Book Review


The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportcoat 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 Sportcoat'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 bestseller shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, and that the communities we build are fragile but vital.
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'When I met James McBride, I felt like I'd had coffee with a hysterically funny Leo Tolstoy' Ethan Hawke

'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

What Goodreads readers are saying:

***** 'Deacon King Kong is one of those novels whose brilliance sneaks up on you. I haven't been this pleasantly surprised by a book in a while.'

***** 'I do believe I just finished one of my all time favorite books. I loved every minute spent with Sportcoat and his community. A good old fashioned yarn shot through with truth, spirit, and humor. I LOVED it!'

***** 'This book was a balm for my soul, a portrait of a black church community circa 1969 with sweet characters (well, most of them), interconnections that stretch back decades, and a plot with more than one mystery at its heart.'

***** '"Deacon" has the texture of folk lore and fable mixed with the unexpected rhythms of jazz and the noisy streets of late 1960s Brooklyn.'

***** 'The ending was one of those where you clutch your heart and want to hug the book (or your Kindle).'

Author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, a Waterstones Book of the Month 2024

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
25. Februar 2021
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
370
Autor/Autorin
James McBride
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
262 g
Größe (L/B/H)
199/130/32 mm
Sonstiges
B-format paperback
ISBN
9780857527585

Portrait

James McBride

James McBride is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestsellers, The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird, which is currently being made into a television series starring Ethan Hawke. A former reporter for The Washington Post and People magazine, McBride holds a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and a B. A. from Oberlin College. In 2015 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

Pressestimmen

The sheer volume of invention in Deacon King Kong commands awe. . . And the sentences! The prose radiates a kind of chain-reaction energy. NEW YORKER

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