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The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 - Now A Major BBC Drama (Paperback)
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The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 - Now A Major BBC Drama (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by
multi-million-copy bestselling author Andrea Levy is a hauntingly
beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel, which will
resonate with everyone who went to see the Oscar-winning film 12
Years a Slave and fans of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees.
'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial Times 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 there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and
she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I
must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the
negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the
white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides
- far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is
carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. Perhaps,
my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey
through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this
he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel
they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss.
Come, let them just read it for themselves.
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Imprint: |
Headline Review
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2010 |
First published: |
2011 |
Authors: |
Andrea Levy
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
421 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7553-5942-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-7553-5942-9 |
Barcode: |
9780755359424 |
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