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A brief history of seven killings : a novel / Marlon James.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014Edition: First Riverhead hardcover editionDescription: xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781594486005 (hardback)
  • 159448600X (hardback)
  • 9781594633942 (Riverhead trade paperback)
  • 1594633940 (Riverhead trade paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR9265.9.J358 B75 2014
Contents:
Original rockers : December 2, 1976 -- Ambush in the night : December 3, 1976 -- Shadow dancin' : February 15, 1979 -- White lines/kids in America : August 14, 1985 -- Sound boy killing : March 22, 1991.
Awards:
  • Man Booker Prize winner, 2015
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--Summary: "On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer's house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins' fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James's fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters--assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghosts--James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s." -- Publisher's description.
List(s) this item appears in: Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Circulating Book Collection Circulating Book Collection Albright College Library Stacks General collection 813.6 J28b 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002457917
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Original rockers : December 2, 1976 -- Ambush in the night : December 3, 1976 -- Shadow dancin' : February 15, 1979 -- White lines/kids in America : August 14, 1985 -- Sound boy killing : March 22, 1991.

"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--

"On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer's house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins' fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James's fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters--assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghosts--James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s." -- Publisher's description.

Man Booker Prize winner, 2015

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