TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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.
AU  - Martin, Valerie,
CN  - PS3563.A7295
CN  - PS3563.A7295
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2004, c2003.
ET  - 1st ed.
ID  - 436734
KW  - Plantation owners' spouses
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Slave insurrections
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Women slaves
KW  - Mistresses
KW  - Slavery
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/2002066846.html
N2  - "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.
PB  - Vintage Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2004, c2003.
SN  - 9780375713309 (pbk.)
SN  - 0375713301 (pbk.)
T1  - Property /
TI  - Property /
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/2002066846.html
ER  -