Property / Valerie Martin.

1st ed.

9780375713309 (pbk.)
0375713301 (pbk.)

New York : Vintage Books, 2004, c2003.

English

196 p. ; 21 cm.

PS3563.A7295 P76 2004

813/.54

"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.

Orange Prize, 2003.

Vintage contemporaries

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