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Title:
A brief history of seven killings
Author:
James, Marlon, 1970- , author.
Personal Author:
James, Marlon, 1970- , author.
Publication Information:
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Physical Description:
xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
General Note:
"A novel"--Jacket.
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
Marley, Bob-Assassination attempts-Fiction.
Subject Term:
Assassins -- Fiction.

Oral history -- Fiction.

Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.

Rastafarians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION / Historical.
Geographic Term:
Jamaica -- History -- 1962- -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
ISBN:
9781594486005
Format :
Book

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