Deacon King Kong was published in and written by American author James McBride. It is an example of near-historical fiction written about American cities and social issues. McBride’s memoir about growing up in a mixed-race family in Brooklyn, The Color of Water, was both a commercial and critical success, and his own life experience aligns with some of the narratives and issues in Deacon . In Deacon King Kong, 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/5(K). Deacon King Kong by James McBride is a Random House publication. Bold, Brilliant and Captivating! Set in Brooklyn, the story starts off with a literal bang when an elderly church deacon, known as ‘Sportcoat’, shoots Deems Clemens, a drug dealer, in front of the Cause houses housing project, with no shortage of witnesses/5.
And yet McBride has described "Deacon King Kong" as a novel about a church, rather than about a housing project, and perhaps that spirit lends an element of parable to the plot's occasional. - Time Magazine From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. An accomplished musician as well as the author of the classic memoir The Color of Water and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, McBride infus.
DEACON KING KONG By James McBride. It’s September , and Deacon Cuffy Lambkin is about to become a dead man walking. Well, to be accurate, Sportcoat, as he is better known, is about to become. Deacon King Kong Summary and Study Guide. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. McBride’s love for this small-time, profoundly decent churchy milieu, with all its foibles, radiates from Deacon King Kong so powerfully you can almost feel the pages warm in your hands.
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