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A brief history of seven killings

"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful 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.

Main Author: James, Marlon, 1970- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Subjects:
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 > New York.
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful 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.
Item Description: "A novel"--Jacket.
Physical Description: xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781780749761
9781594486005 (hbk.)
159448600X (hbk.)
9781594633942
Author Notes: Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1970. He studied literature at the University of the West Indies. He worked in advertising for more than a decade, as a copywriter, art director and graphic designer. He took a writing workshop in Kingston, Jamaica, and later enrolled in a writing program at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was published in 2005. His other novels include The Book of Night Women and A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015. He teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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