![]() ![]() Upstairs/Downstairs social comment and magical realism thrown in here and there. Set at a time of unique turbulence in a colonial landscape on the verge of collapse, it is told in an effective mixture of hilariously Monty Pythonesque humour, combined with On the surface, Levy's tale is of a torrid romance between the indomitable mulatto slave, Miss July, and her master, a spiritual contortionist, Robert Goodwin. ![]() It is in many ways a comedy of manners on life in the great house, taking equal shots at despicable masters in all their evil, arrogance and pretentiousness, and their luckless slaves, who survive them through a combination of sly ingenuity, effective obsequiousness and hypocrisy, sabotage and resilient perversity. ![]() The Long Song is a wickedly funny parody of life at Amity sugar cane plantation in Jamaica, in the years leading up to and just after emancipation of July 31, 1838. ![]()
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