Description for The Long Song
paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755359417
SKU
KAC0000902
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Carole Matthews
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 ... Read more
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