{"product_id":"deacon-king-kong-9780857527585","title":"Deacon King Kong","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e⭐ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH''S BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e⭐ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e⭐ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR, NEW YORK TIMES \u0026amp; WASHINGTON POST\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic of intertwined lives.'' JOYCE CAROL OATES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane.'' JUNOT DIAZ, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEACON KING KONG is a book about a community under threat, about the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sheer volume of invention in \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong \u003c\/i\u003ecommands awe...And the sentences! The prose radiates a kind of chain-reaction energy. * NEW YORKER *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e is full of heart, humor, and compassion...I say we give him another National Book Award for this one. It's that good. * NPR *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e reaffirms James McBride's position among the greatest American storytellers of our time. * BOOKPAGE *\u003cbr\u003eHilarious...A rich and vivid multicultural history. * TIME *\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps you wouldn't expect your next great read to be a sort of comic opera set in a Brooklyn housing project circa 1969 starring a drink-addled church deacon named Sportcoat, his best friend Hot Sausage and a melancholic amateur gardener with mafia ties known as the Elephant. Best put on your seat belt, because McBride (\u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive-Carat Soul\u003c\/i\u003e) will take you on a fast, funny, farcical ride. * WASHINGTON POST *\u003cbr\u003eMcBride is operating in the realm of social allegory, a lineage that extends back through generations of writers: Ralph Ellison, Terry Southern, Darius James. Like them, he telegraphs his intentions through the use — or better yet, the reinvention — of history, which as \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e progresses becomes a kind of floating opera, touching but not always overlapping with events as they occurred. * LA TIMES *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e cements McBride as a master storyteller. * SHELF AWARENESS *\u003cbr\u003eDazzling, spiritually rich. * OPRAH magazine *\u003cbr\u003ePeopled with wondrously quirky and charismatic individuals...both hilarious and affecting, the patter a treat, and in wise, drunk, old Sportcoat James McBride has given us a character for the ages. * BIG ISSUE *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737728037207,"sku":"9780857527585","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857527585.jpg?v=1723811399","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deacon-king-kong-9780857527585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}