{"product_id":"the-long-song-9780312571146","title":"The Long Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn her follow-up to \u003ci\u003eSmall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Island, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Andrea Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Song\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \"\u003ci\u003eThe Long Song\u003c\/i\u003e leaves its reader with a newly burnished appreciation for life, love, and the pursuit of both\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in London, England to Jamaican parents, \u003cb\u003e Andrea Levy\u003c\/b\u003e (1956-2019) was the author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Island\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Whitbread Award (now Costa Award), the Orange Prize for Fiction (now Women's Prize for Fiction), and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The BBC Masterpiece Classic television adaptation of her novel won an International Emmy for best TV movie\/miniseries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrea's other books include the Man Booker Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Long Song\u003c\/i\u003e, also adapted by the BBC for television, and \u003ci\u003eFruit of the Lemon\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726076350738,"sku":"9780312571146","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_776d85ed-dcbf-4a46-a85f-384f6219be82.jpg?v=1734853444","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-long-song-9780312571146","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}