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Riverhead trade paperback
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James, Marlon,
1970-
A brief history of seven killings :
a novel /
Marlon James.
First Riverhead hardcover edition.
New York :
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA),
2014.
xiv, 688 pages ;
25 cm.
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.
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. Spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters -- assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts -- A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s.
20231219.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015.
Marley, Bob
Assassination attempts
Fiction.
Since 1900.
fast
Assassins
Fiction.
Oral history
Fiction.
Crack (Drug)
Fiction.
Reggae musicians
Jamaica
Fiction.
Rastafarians
Jamaica
Fiction.
Jamaica
History
1962-
Fiction.
New York (N.Y)
History
20th century
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
fast
Biographical fiction.
fast
Fiction.
fast
History.
fast