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The Resource A brief history of seven killings : a novel, Marlon James, (electronic resource)
A brief history of seven killings : a novel, Marlon James, (electronic resource)
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The item A brief history of seven killings : a novel, Marlon James, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
Resource Information
The item A brief history of seven killings : a novel, Marlon James, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
- Summary
- 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. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James' place among the great literary talents of his generation
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
- OverDrive eBook
- Isbn
- 9780698170506
- Label
- A brief history of seven killings : a novel
- Title
- A brief history of seven killings
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Marlon James
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James' place among the great literary talents of his generation
- Cataloging source
- RECBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- James, Marlon
- Dewey number
- 813
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9265.9.J358
- Literary form
- unknown
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Marley, Bob
- Assassins
- Oral history
- Reggae musicians
- Rastafarians
- Jamaica
- New York (N.Y.)
- Label
- A brief history of seven killings : a novel, Marlon James, (electronic resource)
- Note
- OverDrive eBook
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780698170506
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Publisher number
- EB00389275
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 61F354B2-62A3-4D92-92AC-F80331C6B630
- System control number
- (OCoLC)883334672
- Label
- A brief history of seven killings : a novel, Marlon James, (electronic resource)
- Note
- OverDrive eBook
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780698170506
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Publisher number
- EB00389275
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 61F354B2-62A3-4D92-92AC-F80331C6B630
- System control number
- (OCoLC)883334672
Subject
- trueElectronic books
- Jamaica -- History -- 1962- -- Fiction
- Marley, Bob -- Assassination attempts -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Oral history -- Fiction
- Rastafarians -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Assassins -- Fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2014
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2014
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2014
- trueLibrary Journal Top Ten
- trueMan Booker Prize
- trueMinnesota Book Awards: Novel & Short Story
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