The long song / Andrea Levy.
A tale, set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom, that portrays the life of the slave girl July, her mother Kitty, and Caroline Mortimer, the white woman who owned the plantation where they worked.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374192174
- ISBN: 9780670064113 (hc)
- ISBN: 9780143173953 (Penguin trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: 313 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Hamish Hamilton ; c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-313). |
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Subject: | English > Jamaica > Fiction. Slavery > Jamaica > Fiction. Sugar plantations > Jamaica > Fiction. Women > Jamaica > Fiction. Jamaica > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. General fiction. |
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Bowen Island Public Library | F LEV (Text) | 30947000389466 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Burns Lake Public Library | AF (Text) | 35198000474123 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fernie Heritage Library | FIC LEV (Text) | 35136000209172 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Galiano Island Community Library | FIC LEV (Text) | 33127000050486 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her fourth novel, Small Island, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The television adaptation of her novel won an International Emmy for best TV movie/miniseries. The Long Song was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and she is also the author of Fruit of the Lemon, among others. She lives in London.