John Crow's Devil

by Marlon James, b.1970

$200 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

New York: Akashic Books, 2005 . First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 232 pages, with 2 additional pages of publisher ads. Debut novel by Man Booker Prize-winning Jamaican author, Marlon James. This work was rejected 70 times before finally being published here. Novel set in a remote Jamaican village in the late 1950s as a biblical struggle unfolds between a drunken preacher

• Binding: Hardcover

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