#artist#music#hardcover#nonfiction#nonfiction#biography Bob Marley's mom and Winkler offer a sentimental biography of the reggae superstar, mostly in Booker's first-person Jamaican vernacular but occasionally slipping into ghost-writer boilerplate. Many complicated matters in Marley's saga are simplified here, which conspires with the inconsistent narrative voice to undercut the book's value. Booker treats Marley's white father as sympathetically as Bob's daughter does in her juvenile biography of her father--indeed, much more sympathetically than do other books on Marley, which is of a piece with the image-sanitation practices of the financial controllers of Bob's legacy. Still, Booker has much of value to say about her son's personal life, his wife, Rita, and his many paramours (Booker warned Bob about getting involved with light-skinned model Cindy Breakspeare), and some--but not nearly enough--to say about Bob's longtime friends and bandmates Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. Valuable as an ancillary resource on the most famous Jamaican ever.

ISBN: 9780878332984