Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)

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Price
$18.00  $16.74
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publish Date
Pages
400
Dimensions
5.15 X 8.0 X 1.0 inches | 0.72 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780735216730

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About the Author
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.
Reviews
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