A brief history of seven killings : a novel / Marlon James.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594486005 (hardback)
- ISBN: 159448600X (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781594633942 (Riverhead trade paperback)
- ISBN: 1594633940 (Riverhead trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Riverhead hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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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. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F JAMES M (Text) | 32544072339673 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F JAMES (Text) | 34030130252684 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/JAMES (Text) | 34029131300062 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC JAMES (Text) | 34014141728478 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Jam (Text) | 33180123720048 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
Deep River Public Library | F Jame (Text) | 36039001141189 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC JAM (Text) | 33400130686770 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC JAMES,M (Text) | 34026129796426 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC JAM (Text) | 34055132005327 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | JAMES, MARLON (Text) | 34037133911216 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner) : A Novel
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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner) : A Novel
Winner of the Booker Prize One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A "thrilling, ambitious . . . intense" ( Los Angeles Times ) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf In A Brief History of Seven Killings , Marlon James combines brilliant storytelling with his unrivaled skills of characterization and meticulous eye for detail to forge an enthralling novel of dazzling ambition and scope. 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. Rumors abound regarding the assassins' fates, and there are suspicions that the attack was politically motivated. A Brief History of Seven Killings delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond. James deftly chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters - gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents, even ghosts - over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate. Gripping and inventive, shocking and irresistible, A Brief History of Seven Killings is a mesmerizing modern classic of power, mystery, and insight.