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John Crow´s Devil: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
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Description for John Crow´s Devil: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Paperback. The award-winning debut from the critically-acclaimed author of A Brief History of Seven Killings Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
The debut novel of the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015
Jamaica, 1957
On a day beginning with a bad omen – black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows – a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church and congregation. Promising vengeance and damnation, he wastes no time delivering both, and in doing so starts a power struggle that sets the village of Gibbeah on a path to destruction.
With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and ... Read more
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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780748498
SKU
V9781780748498
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99-50
About Marlon James
Marlon James was born in Jamaica. He is the author of John Crow’s Devil (Oneworld, 2015), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. His ... Read more
Reviews for John Crow´s Devil: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
'Feels contemporary and necessary, exploring how religion can be used as justification for mankind's deepest urges'.
Press Association
'A relentless excavation of an isolated village in which sex, violence and Jesus form a combustible trinity of catalysts and salves'.
New Statesman
‘Dense, lyrical and richly over the top’.
Sunday Times
'Introduces us to his ... Read more
Press Association
'A relentless excavation of an isolated village in which sex, violence and Jesus form a combustible trinity of catalysts and salves'.
New Statesman
‘Dense, lyrical and richly over the top’.
Sunday Times
'Introduces us to his ... Read more