The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
$36.50
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2011
Summary
You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.
July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was ther…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755359424 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755359429 |
| Author: | Andrea Levy |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 196mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Review |
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Critics Review
‘The Long Song is is told with irresistable cunning; it is captivating, mischievious and optimistic, generating new stories and plot lines throughout the tale’ - Daily Telegraph
‘Levy has a rare ability to channel the maelstrom of history into the most intimate of human dramas’ - New StatesmanAbout The Author
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948. She has lived all her life in London. After attending writing workshops when she was in her mid-thirties, Levy began to write the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read – entertaining novels that reflect the experiences of black Britons, which look closely and perceptively at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean.
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