Deacon King Kong

Name: Deacon King Kong : Barack Obama Favourite Read & Oprah's Book Club Pick
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Barack Obama Favourite Read & Oprah's Book Club Pick

James McBride

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«The sheer volume of invention in Deacon King Kong commands awe...And the sentences! The prose radiates a kind of chain-reaction energy.»
NEW YORKER

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A New York Times bestseller about community, race and religion from the National Book Award winner, James McBride

Detaljer

Forlag: Doubleday
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN: 9780857527585
Utgivelsesår: 2021
Format: 20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

James McBride is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestsellers, The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird, which is currently being made into a television series starring Ethan Hawke. A former reporter for The Washington Post and People magazine, McBride holds a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. from Oberlin College. In 2015 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

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«The sheer volume of invention in Deacon King Kong commands awe...And the sentences! The prose radiates a kind of chain-reaction energy.»
NEW YORKER

«Deacon King Kong is full of heart, humor, and compassion...I say we give him another National Book Award for this one. It's that good.»
NPR

«Deacon King Kong reaffirms James McBride's position among the greatest American storytellers of our time.»
BOOKPAGE

«Hilarious...A rich and vivid multicultural history.»
TIME

«Perhaps you wouldn't expect your next great read to be a sort of comic opera set in a Brooklyn housing project circa 1969 starring a drink-addled church deacon named Sportcoat, his best friend Hot Sausage and a melancholic amateur gardener with mafia ties known as the Elephant. Best put on your seat belt, because McBride (The Good Lord Bird, Five-Carat Soul) will take you on a fast, funny, farcical ride.»
WASHINGTON POST

«McBride is operating in the realm of social allegory, a lineage that extends back through generations of writers: Ralph Ellison, Terry Southern, Darius James. Like them, he telegraphs his intentions through the use — or better yet, the reinvention — of history, which as Deacon King Kong progresses becomes a kind of floating opera, touching but not always overlapping with events as they occurred.»
LA TIMES

«Deacon King Kong cements McBride as a master storyteller.»
SHELF AWARENESS

«Dazzling, spiritually rich.»
OPRAH magazine

«Peopled with wondrously quirky and charismatic individuals...both hilarious and affecting, the patter a treat, and in wise, drunk, old Sportcoat James McBride has given us a character for the ages.»
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