Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club), (Paperback)

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I LOVED Deacon King Kong by James McBride, the author of The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird. Five stars. Sportcoat is an elderly but still vital man also known as Deacon King Kong, because he's a deacon at the local church and loves to drink King Kong, a potent bootleg drink. It's 1969, in...

from brenzi

The fun and laughter are top loaded in this book. Just a rollicking good time that had me laughing out loud when I wasn't saddened by what was happening. Set mostly in a Brooklyn housing project in the 1960s, the deacon, who goes by the name of Sportcoat, has a drinking problem and yet tries his ...

from berthirsch

Book review- Deacon King Kong The latest novel from James McBride, an author I first encountered some 25 years ago when he wrote a stunningly personal and enlightening memoir entitled, The Color of Water. In that book he told the story of his family of origin and childhood spent in the New York C...

from nmele

What a wonderful novel! McBride has written a wild ride of a story, plotted like a farce and full of comic but dignified characters, that is both a tragedy and a comedy; I don't really want to say more than that but I should say that some of the wildest and most disparate plot threads come togeth...

from steve02476

Great story, great writing, great characters, and the *best* names for the characters. Really enjoyed, and the little “magical realism” bits were fine although I don't usually like that kind of thing.