RaveThe Star TribuneShort, intense and emotionally precise ... Such is McCloskey’s powerful control of the novel and meticulous, economical observations, that in little more than 200 pages she can show the exact nature of a life not wasted, but not fully inhabited — Alice ends up with no settled home as an aid worker for refugees — as well as the character of one marriage, of an affair and, not least, of the transformation of Ireland herself.
Marlon James
RaveThe Minneapolis Star TribuneMarlon James' demanding, brilliantly executed third novel is based with extreme artistic license on the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley...In this novel — and surely in life — the planned assassination of ‘the Singer’ (the Bob Marley of this book) is only one element in the CIA's effort to unseat the government of Prime Minister Michael Manley … Put plainly, A Brief History of Seven Killings calls for a stout heart, strong stomach and prodigious powers of concentration, but the reader so equipped will be rewarded with an experience he or she will not soon forget. The novel makes no compromises, but is cruelly and consummately a work of art.
