![]() ![]() Controlling this commotion is our likable and no-nonsense narrator-protagonist, July. But there is even more noise in this novel: the narrator-the former house slave July, who is also the protagonist lives with her son Thomas, and that household, with three young girls, is as deafening as the printing-press in England, where the son learned his trade. ![]() The island of Jamaica is equally chaotic in the period leading up to abolition of slavery in 1832. The setting of the novel, the sugar plantation Amity in early-nineteenth-century Jamaica, is a boisterous place, and there are many voices pitched to be heard in the din and chaos of cane-cutting slaves and greedy owners. The characters yell, shout, scream, screech, bellow, holler, howl, pant, argue, quarrel, sing and talk. Voice and Noise-a Review of Andrea Levy's The Long Song (London: Headline Review, 2010), 336 pp.Īndrea Levy's enjoyable fifth novel, The Long Song (2010), is a very noisy novel. ![]()
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