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Deacon King Kong: A Novel av James McBride
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel (utgåvan 2021)

av James McBride (Författare)

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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. 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 Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. 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. 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. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"--… (mer)
Medlem:Pelirroja67
Titel:Deacon King Kong: A Novel
Författare:James McBride (Författare)
Info:Riverhead Books (2021), 400 pages
Samlingar:Started to read but didn't finish
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A character driven humorous crime novel, there’s nothing wrong with it except that that description does not match the description of novels I’m particularly interested in. The best part for me was when it got something across of 1970 era New York City; other than that we have the characters who are a tad stereotypical but drawn with such great humanity that you don’t really mind - in the Cause Projects you’ve got the elderly drunk, the young hotshot drug dealer, the sturdy church women, and then interacting with them are the honest cop with a good heart who is close to retirement and the Italian gangster who lives with his old mother and is looking to get out.

McBride is obviously skilled at blending humor with his serious situations, but it felt like it went on a bit long to me. But then again, this isn’t the sort of novel I’d generally pick up. ( )
  lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
Read McBride. A wonder and a treasure. ( )
  ben_r47 | Feb 22, 2024 |
Placeholder for review. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Ok
A bit too long; too many extraneous characters ( )
  JosephKing6602 | Feb 2, 2024 |
This is the best example of great character-driven fiction that I've experienced in a long time. Set in a time when society due to white flight, the last years of Vietnam, the rise of Nixon and dog-whistle politics and the early stages of the War on drugs - set amid that trauma, McBride manages to create memorable characters both funny and tragic, without compromising the grim reality that faced the residents of South Brooklyn. There are no, what Forster would term flat characters; each narrative intertwines beautifully; each action has a ripple effect and somehow the author manages to keep the story from spirally away from the center. One of my favorite books of this century (maybe any century). ( )
  DAGray08 | Jan 1, 2024 |
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In a city where history is paved over and where the present landscape is defined by scaffolding bent toward an ever-developing future, this novel resists the usual nostalgia for a lost artists’ utopia. Instead, it animates a neighborhood scrimping by and revitalizes another nostalgic sore spot — that of community.
tillagd av pbirch01 | ändraSeattle Times (Mar 25, 2020)
 
Beneath the characters and comedy is a story about how a community and its religious institutions can provide a center to keep things from falling apart completely.
 

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Deacon Cuffy Lambkin of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969.
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. 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 Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. 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. 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. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"--

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