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The Long Song
The Long Song
Andrea Levy (born 1956)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Long Song
Headline Review · United Kingdom · 2 July 2026 · Paperback
The Long Song
Headline Review · United Kingdom · 2010 · 336 pages
The Long Song
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 2010 · 313 pages
The Long Song
Picador · United States · 26 April 2011
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An elderly woman in Jamaica sets down her early life, prompted by her son Thomas, the printer who is publishing it, and she has little patience for his advice on how a novel should begin. She was born July, an enslaved girl on Amity, a profitable sugar plantation, where her mother Kitty, the other enslaved workers and the plantation's white heiress, Caroline Mortimer, shape her life. Her account moves through the final, violent decades of slavery on the island, including the Baptist War of 1831 and 1832, and into the first years after abolition, carried by her stubborn will to survive.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Jamaica, 1830s
- First published
- 2010
- Author's age
- 54 when first published
- ISBN
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9780755359400 (Headline Review, United Kingdom)
9780374192174 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9780312571146 (Picador, United States)
9780755359424 (Headline Review, United Kingdom)
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