@article{436734,
      recid = {436734},
      author = {Martin, Valerie,},
      title = {Property /},
      publisher = {Vintage Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {196 p. ;},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {"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."--Publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436734},
}