Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780735216730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str.

James McBride

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Praise for DEACON KING KONG:
 
A mystery story, a crime novel, an urban farce, a sociological portrait of late-1960s Brooklyn: McBride s novel contains multitudes He conducts his antic symphony with deep feeling, never losing sight of the suffering and inequity within the merriment. The New York Times, Top 10 Books of 2020
 
"Shouldn t we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade s Great American Novelist?...McBride has a way of inflating reality to comical sizes, the better for us to see every tiny mechanism that holds unjust systems in place." Los Angeles Times
 
A raucous, poignant, humanity-embracing novel. O, The Oprah Magazine, Top 20 Books of 2020
 
A story of comedy and compassion. TIME, Top 10 Books of 2020
 
A boisterous, imaginative, tender foray into late- 1960 s Brooklyn. Entertainment Weekly, Top 10 Books of 2020

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James McBride is an accomplished musician and the author of the National Book Award winning novel The Good Lord Bird, the bestselling American classic The Color of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal, McBride is also a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.