Andrea Levy: The Long Song

The Long Song


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Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize"The New York Times Book Review "Notable Book of the YearIn her follow-up to "Small"" Island, "winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Andrea Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, "The Long Song" is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her "Marguerite." Together they live through the bloody Baptist War and the violent and chaotic end of slavery. An extraordinarily powerful story, ""The Long Song" leaves its reader with a newly burnished appreciation for life, love, and the pursuit of both" ("The Boston Globe").

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Author: Andrea Levy
Number of Pages: 341 pages
Published Date: 26 Apr 2011
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312571146
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