02272cim a2200457 i 4500 417788813 TxAuBib 20200220120000.0 d 191203s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593166970 CMD 45.00 0593166973 CMD 45.00 9780593166970 12410444 (OCoLC)1138131375 TxAuBib rda McBride, James, 1957- Deacon King Kong [sound recording] : a novel / James McBride. Deacon King Kong. Unabridged. [New York] : Penguin Audio, 2020. 12 audio discs (14 hr., 6 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sd rdacarrier Compact discs. Read by Dominic Hoffman. 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. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of James McBride's funny, moving novel. 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. 20200225. jz. Deacons Baptists Fiction. Drug dealers Fiction. Murder Fiction. CD books. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Audiobooks. Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Hoffman, Dominic, narrator.