![]() ![]() ![]() The book is to an extent about unraveling the mystery of what led Sportcoat to do such a thing, as well as detailing the consequences the attack sets in motion. Which makes it all the more surprising when this peaceful man beloved by all, out of the blue and without warning, shoots a 19-year-old drug dealer one afternoon at the flagpole where the old church women of the neighborhood congregate to exchange the daily gossip. ![]() "There is no job too small, no miracle too wondrous, no smell too noxious," McBride writes.į your visiting preacher had diabetes and weighed 450 pounds and gorged himself with too much fatback and chicken thighs at the church repast and your congregation needed a man strong enough to help that tractor-trailer-sized wide-body off the toilet seat and out onto the bus back to the Bronx so somebody could lock up the dang church and go home – why, Sportcoat was your man. He's the person everyone knows, trusts and calls on when they need help, the person who sets all to rights. ![]() The 71-year-old widower meanders through "The Cause," performing odd jobs when he's not too intoxicated by the local moonshine (which is rarely). James McBride's Deacon King Kong is a humorous take on Black life in "the Projects."Ĭuffy Jasper Lambkin, better known as Sportcoat to his fellow members of the Five Ends Baptist Church and residents of the Causeway Housing Projects in South Brooklyn, is at the heart of James McBride's novel Deacon King Kong. ![]()
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