A brief history of seven killings / Marlon James.
Publication details: London : Oneworld, 2015.Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xiv, 688 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781780746357
- Brief history of 7 killings
- Marley, Bob -- Fiction
- Marley, Bob -- Assassination attempts -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Assassins -- Fiction
- Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Rastafarians -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Oral history -- Fiction
- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Jamaica -- History -- 1962- -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
- PR9265.9.J358 B75 2015
- HQ 7999
- Man Booker Prize, 2015.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | JAM | Available | 059932 |
"The Man Booker Prize 2015"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the next day he left the country, and didn't return for two years. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. Inspired by this near-mythic event, A Brief History of Seven Killings takes the form of an imagined oral biography, told by ghosts, witnesses, killers, members of parliament, drug dealers, conmen, beauty queens, FBI and CIA agents, reporters, journalists, and even Keith Richards' drug dealer.
Man Booker Prize, 2015.
