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A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel

A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel Hardcover - 2014

by James, Marlon

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New York: Riverhead Books, 2014-10-02. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 6x1x9. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. Spine taped, edge wear; "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
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  • Title A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel
  • Author James, Marlon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fair
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
  • Date 2014-10-02
  • Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 055055
  • ISBN 9781594486005 / 159448600X
  • Weight 2.2 lbs (1.00 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.55 x 6.42 x 1.41 in (24.26 x 16.31 x 3.58 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Assassins
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014018475
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 10/15/2014, Page 16
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2015, Page 10
  • BookPage, 10/01/2014, Page 0
  • Entertainment Weekly, 10/17/2014, Page 71
  • Essence, 11/01/2014, Page 68
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 07/01/2014, Page 76
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 05/01/2014, Page 56
  • LJ Top 10 Book, 12/01/2014, Page 27
  • New York Times Book Review, 10/26/2014, Page 12
  • New Yorker (The), 12/22/2014, Page 149
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/07/2014, Page 26
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/14/2014, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/03/2014, Page 27

About the author

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.

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