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Saturday, August 8, 2009

More on Covers of Color


Spymouse reminds me that the jacket for Andrea Levy's Small Island showed two young women, well-dressed in the style of the late 40s/ early 50s, passing each other in the street, one white, one black. The novel itself has sold brilliantly, transcending all possible boundaries. Indeed, a two-part TV dramatisation is scheduled for September (starring Naomie Harris - she was in White Teeth a couple of years ago), and sales will probably take off all over again as a result.

Andrea's fifth novel The Long Song is scheduled to come out early next year. It's based on the life of her great- (or possibly great-great) grandmother, who was a slave in the West Indies. No prizes for guessing what ought to be on the jacket!

1 comment:

Sue Gazell said...

The cover of the US edition doesn't even suggest color. I tried to paste a picture, but couldn't. Here is a link to the image on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Small-Island-Novel-Andrea-Levy/dp/0312424671/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249732261&sr=8-1