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by Andrea Levy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea LevyPublish date:2011-04-26Pages:352
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312571146ISBN-10:312571143UPC:9780312571146Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, HistoricalSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC47JSTMTT

Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize
The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

In 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).
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312571146ISBN-10:312571143UPC:9780312571146Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, HistoricalSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC47JSTMTT

Born in London, England to Jamaican parents, Andrea Levy (1956-2019) was the author of Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Award (now Costa Award), the Orange Prize for Fiction (now Women's Prize for Fiction), and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The BBC Masterpiece Classic television adaptation of her novel won an International Emmy for best TV movie/miniseries.

Andrea's other books include the Man Booker Prize finalist The Long Song, also adapted by the BBC for television, and Fruit of the Lemon, among others.
Publisher: Picador USA

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