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092 0  Roman|bengelska 
100 1  McBride, James|4aut 
245 10 Deacon King Kong /|cJames McBride 
246 14 Deacon King Kong :|ba novel 
264  1 New York :|bRiverhead Books,|c2020 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    370 pages|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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"--
       |cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Drug dealers|xCrimes against|vFiction 
650  0 Deacons|xBaptists|vFiction 
650  0 Murder|vFiction 
650  0 Neighborhoods|vFiction 
650  0 Public housing|vFiction 
650  0 Older men|vFiction 
650  0 African Americans|vFiction 
650  7 Narkotikahandel|2sao 
650  7 Afroamerikaner|2sao 
650  7 Afroamerikaner i litteraturen|2sao 
650  7 Äldre män|2sao 
651  0 Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)|vFiction 
651  0 New York (N.Y.)|xHistory|y20th century|vFiction 
651  0 New York (N.Y.)|xSocial life and customs|vFiction 
651  7 Förenta staterna|zNew York|2sao 
655  7 Romaner|2saogf