Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search

[ 2 filters applied ]

Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 3
A brief history of seven killings : a novel Cover Image Book Book

A brief history of seven killings : a novel

James, Marlon 1970- (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1594633940
  • ISBN: 9781594633942
  • Physical Description: xiv, 688 pages ; 21 cm
    print
  • Edition: First Riverhead hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.

Content descriptions

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.
Awards Note:
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2015

Search for related items by subject

Subject: New York (N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction
Jamaica History 1962- Fiction
Rastafarians Jamaica Fiction
Reggae musicians Jamaica Fiction
Crack (Drug) Fiction
Oral history Fiction
Assassins Fiction
Marley, Bob Assassination attempts Fiction

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Albright Memorial Library FICTION JAMES (Text) 50686014801125 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION JAMES (Text) 50686014965516 Storage Available -
Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 3

Additional Resources