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Bibliographic Information
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A brief history of seven killings [electronic resource] : a novel
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James, Marlon, 1970-
- Publisher:
- Riverhead Books,
- Pub date:
- 2014.
- Pages:
- 1 online resource
- ISBN:
- 9780698170506
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
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1 copy total in all locations.
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A brief history of seven killings [electronic resource] : a novel
James, Marlon, 1970-
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A brief history of seven killings [electronic resource] : a novel
James, Marlon, 1970-
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Personal Author:
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James, Marlon, 1970-
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Title:
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A brief history of seven killings [electronic resource] : a novel / Marlon James.
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Publication info:
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New York : Riverhead Books, 2014.
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Physical description:
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1 online resource
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General Note:
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Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 19, 2014).
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Summary:
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From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. 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. Deftly 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.
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Personal subject:
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Marley, Bob--Assassination attempts--Fiction.
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Assassins--Fiction.
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Oral history--Fiction.
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Reggae musicians--Jamaica--Fiction.
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Rastafarians--Jamaica--Fiction.
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Fiction.
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FICTION--Literary.
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Historical.
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Subject term:
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Literary.
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Jamaica--History--1962- --Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
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