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A brief history of seven killings : a novel
- Title
- A brief history of seven killings : a novel / Marlon James.
- Author
- James, Marlon, 1970-
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
- ©2014
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 23-79 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-138 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 688 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Marley, Bob > Assassination attempts > Fiction
- Marley, Bob
- Since 1900
- Assassins > Fiction
- Oral history > Fiction
- Crack (Drug) > Fiction
- Reggae musicians > Jamaica > Fiction
- Rastafarians > Jamaica > Fiction
- Assassins
- Attempted assassination
- Crack (Drug)
- Oral history
- Rastafarians
- Reggae musicians
- Jamaica > History > 1962- > Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Fiction
- Jamaica
- New York (State) > New York
- West Indies > West Indies (Federation)
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards (note)
- Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 2015, Fiction.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-79
- ISBN
- 9781594486005
- 159448600X
- 9781594633942
- 1594633940
- LCCN
- 2014018475
- OCLC
- 871192481
- Author
- James, Marlon, 1970- author.
- Title
- A brief history of seven killings : a novel / Marlon James.
- Publisher
- New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Edition
- First Riverhead hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards
- Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 2015, Fiction.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1900
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-79JFE 15-138