Deacon King Kong
(Book on CD)

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[United States] : Penguin Audio, 2020.
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Book on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
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12 sound discs (846 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Published
[United States] : Penguin Audio, 2020.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English

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Compact disc.
General Note
03/03/2020.
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Read by Dominic Hoffman.
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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 James McBride's funny, moving novel. 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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

McBride, J., & Hoffman, D. (2020). Deacon King Kong (Unabridged.). Penguin Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McBride, James and Dominic, Hoffman. 2020. Deacon King Kong. Penguin Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McBride, James and Dominic, Hoffman. Deacon King Kong Penguin Audio, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

McBride, James., and Dominic Hoffman. Deacon King Kong Unabridged., Penguin Audio, 2020.

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