The Long Song: A Novel
by Levy, Andrea
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374192170
- ISBN 13
- 9780374192174
- Seller
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Sewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
Synopsis
Andrea Levy was born in London in 1956, she not only lives and works in the city but has used London as a setting for many of her other prizewinning novels. This book, The Long Song, was short-listed for the Man Booker prize. The setting is an 1830’s plantation in Jamaica during the last years of slavery and the period immediately following emancipation. This is where a field worker's daughter, July, is born and eventually is taken into the plantation house and renamed “Marquerite” by an English widow. The novel is narrated by the character of July herself, now an old woman and looking back upon her eventful life. This hauntingly beautiful book is thoroughly researched and is an intriguing story of a joint black and white past.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0004886
- Title
- The Long Song: A Novel
- Author
- Levy, Andrea
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. 313 pp.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374192170
- ISBN 13
- 9780374192174
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 313
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Fiction, Historical, Contemporary, 19th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical; Contemporary; Fiction; 19th Century;
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