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02062aam a2200361 4500 001 3074D0E4307E11EBAF9C592A5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201127010004 008 200527s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0593166973 020 $a 9780593166970 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a McBride, James, $d 1957- 245 1 $a Deacon King Kong $h [sound recording] / $c James McBride. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Penguin Audio, $c 2020. 300 $a 12 sound discs (840 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a 03/03/2020. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 1 $a Read by Dominic Hoffman. 520 $a 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. 541 $d 20200603. 650 $a Community life. 650 $a Crime and race. 651 7 $a Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) 655 7 $a Fiction. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. 655 7 $a Historical. 700 $a Hoffman, Dominic. 856 $u https://www.midwesttape.com/images/movies/000/000/000/012/410/000000000012410444.jpg $3 View cover art 941 $a 1 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20201127010441.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3074D0E4307E11EBAF9C592A5AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search