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Can I read The Long Song on EtoBox?
The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Long Song about?
Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker PrizeThe New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIn her follow-up to Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Andrea Levy once again reinvents the historical novel.Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her'Marguerite.'Together they live through the bloody Baptist War and the violent and chaotic end of slavery. An extraordinarily powerful story,'The Long Song leaves its reader with a newly burnished appreciation for life, love, and the pursuit of both'(The Boston Globe).
Who reads The Long Song?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Andrea Levy
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429929882
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.63 / 5 (5,077 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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