{"product_id":"9781429929882","title":"The Long Song: A Novel","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eSMALL ISLAND \u003c\/i\u003eTELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Island \u003c\/i\u003eintroduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as “a triumph” (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e). It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. With \u003ci\u003eThe Long Song\u003c\/i\u003e, Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eis at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, 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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eResourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her “freedom.” It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. Prompted and provoked by her son’s persistent questioning, July’s resilience and heartbreak are gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139293987056,"sku":"9781429929882","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429929882_p0.jpg?v=1769902055","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429929882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}