Deacon King Kong - James McBride

From The Author Of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.a New York Times Bestseller And Oprah''s Book Club Pickchosen By Barack Obama As A Favourite Readtop Ten Books Of The Year, New York Times & Washington Postnational Book Award Winning Author''brilliantly Imagined, Larger Than Life, A Tragicomedic Epic.'' Joyce Carol Oates''deeply Felt, Beautifully Written And Profoundly Humane.'' Junot Diaz''among The Greatest American Storytellers Of Our Time.'' Bookpage''a Modern Day Mark Twain'' Nyt Book Reviewthe 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.