Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel

James McBride

eBook - 2020

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeOne of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"Oprah's Book Club PickNamed 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 Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, 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, s...hoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
James McBride
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9780735216747
Release Date3/3/2020
Kindle Book
ISBN9780735216747
ASINB07TG6YSNQ
Release Date3/3/2020
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780735216747
Release Date3/3/2020