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Author:

James, Marlon, 1970- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First Riverhead trade paperback.

Publisher:

Riverhead Booksa member of Penguin Group (USA),

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 688 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Marley, Bob--Assassination attempts--Fiction.
Assassins--Fiction.
Oral history--Fiction.
Reggae musicians--Jamaica--Fiction.
Rastafarians--Jamaica--Fiction.
Jamaica--History--1962---Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

"From the writer of The Book of Night Women comes a 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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 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 much has been whispered, gossiped, and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. A Brief History of Seven Killings delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond.

ISBN:

1594633940
9781594633942

Locations:

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)