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Property by Valerie Martin
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.
Lisa, who has always wanted to be a writer, has just recently began to put pen to paper in order to share her thoughts and ideas with the rest of the world.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375713309 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375713301 |
| Title | Property |
| Author | Valerie Martin |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2004-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of Orange Prize 2003 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |