Deacon King Kong
McBride, James
1957-
creator
author.
text
novel
nyu
2020
2020
monographic
eng
370 pages ; 24 cm.
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. 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.
adult
James McBride.
n-us-ny
Drug dealers
Crimes against
Fiction
Neighbourhoods
Fiction
Public housing
Fiction
Deacons
Fiction
Nineteen sixties
Fiction
New York (State)
Social life and customs
20th century
Fiction
813/.6
9780735216723
DLC
200323
20200624103744.0
000066896931
eng