Book
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. |
Search for related items by subject
| 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. |
Available copies
- 32 of 33 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 2 of 2 copies available at Silas Bronson Library. (Show preferred library)
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- 0 current holds with 33 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC JAMES, M (Text) | 34005127296373 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | S FIC JAMES, M (Text) | 34005118320893 | Storage | Available | - |
| 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 | - |
