Publication

2003 - Nan A. Talese, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

49,000 words, Guess

Page Count

196 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveproperty00mart
  • ISBN-10038550408X
  • ISBN-139780385504089
  • Goodreads1193879
  • LibraryThing12846
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Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3563.A7295 P76 2003

Description

Valerie Martin’s **Property** delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, **Property** unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.

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Genres

  • Fiction

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