Deacon King Kong
BookThis item doesn’t have any media yet
2020 | Fiction & Poetry | Humor & Comedy
From the winner of a National Book Award and author of the bestselling memoir,The Color of Water, and The Good Lord Bird, a TV series starring Ethan Hawke
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.
Related Items:
Published by | Doubleday |
Images And Data Courtesy Of: Doubleday.
This content (including text, images, videos and other media) is published and used in accordance
with Fair Use.
9-10 |
|
100.0% (1) | |
7-8 |
|
0.0% (0) | |
5-6 |
|
0.0% (0) | |
3-4 |
|
0.0% (0) | |
1-2 |
|
0.0% (0) |