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THE LONG SONG: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010
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| By: |
Andrea Levy |
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Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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£8.02 |
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£2.97 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0755359429 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780755359424 |
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Currently 6 available |
| Publisher: |
HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2011 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
Praise for Andrea Levy: 'There is great skill in the way she presents characters and dialogue; she has powers of observation and an ear for language that make her books a pleasure to read' Times Literary Supplement |
| Synopsis: |
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 TimesYou 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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Tinder Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2011
Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the
Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 |
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Returnable |
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