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A brief history of seven killings a novel /

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 o...

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Main Author: James, Marlon, 1970-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Physical Description: xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: First Riverhead hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Marley, Bob -- Assassination attempts -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Fiction.
Oral history -- Fiction.
Crack (Drug) -- Fiction.
Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
Rastafarians -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
Jamaica -- History -- 1962- -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Online Access: Additional Information at Google Books
Table of 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.

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