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02092aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 97E9E0DC60F111E59DE6DDEEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150922010258 008 150909t20152014nyu 000 f eng 020 $a 1594633940 020 $a 9781594633942 040 $a JOY $b eng $e rda $c JOY $d SILO 100 1 $a James, Marlon, $d 1970- $e author. 245 12 $a A brief history of seven killings : $b a novel / $c Marlon James. 246 3 $a Brief history of 7 killings : $b a novel 250 $a First Riverhead trade paperback. 264 1 $a New York : $b Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), $c 2015. 300 $a xii, 688 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Marley, Bob $x Assassination attempts $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Assassins $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Oral history $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Reggae musicians $z Jamaica $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rastafarians $z Jamaica $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Jamaica $x History $y 1962- $v Fiction. 651 1 $a New York (N.Y.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l GLAX641 $d 20231201010724.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012055.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=97E9E0DC60F111E59DE6DDEEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search