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A brief history of seven killings
Title statement A brief history of seven killings : a novel / Marlon James. Publication New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. Phys.des. 1 online resource (xiv, 688 pages) ISBN 9780698170506 (online) 0698170504 (online) Note Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 19, 2014). Contents 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. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Personalities Marley, Bob - Assassination attempts - Fiction.
Marley, Bob.Chronological term Since 1900 Subj. Headings Assassins - Fiction. * Oral history - Fiction. * Reggae musicians - Jamaica - Fiction. * Rastafarians - Jamaica - Fiction. * FICTION - Literary. * Historical. * Literary. * Assassins. * Attempted assassination. * Oral history. * Rastafarians. * Reggae musicians. * Historischer Roman * Amerikanisches Englisch Geographic keywords Jamaica - History - 1962- - Fiction. * New York (N.Y.) - History - 20th century - Fiction. * New York (N.Y.) - History - 20th century - Fiction. * Jamaica. * New York (State) - New York. Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Conspect FIC014000 FIC019000 Country New York Language angličtina Document kind Electronic books URL Plný text pro studenty a zaměstnance UPOL book
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.
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.
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