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Property Hardcover - 2003

by Valerie Martin


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From the acclaimed author of "Mary Reilly," a groundbreaking novel that reexamines the questions of power and resistance, violence and sex, which inform all her work.
Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, PROPERTY takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a voice rarely heard in American fiction: the voice of a woman slave holder. Manon Gaudet is pretty and petulant, self-absorbed and bored. She has come to a sugar plantation north of New Orleans as a bride, bringing with her a prized piece of property, the young slave Sarah, only to see Sarah become her husband's mistress and bear his child. As the whispers of a slave rebellion grow louder and more threatening, Manon speaks to us of her past and her present, her longings and dreams - an uncensored, pitch-perfect voice from the heart of moral darkness. PROPERTY is riveting fiction, fast, richly plotted, shimmering with visual detail. It is also an invitation to re-examine the traditions of the Southern novel and the myth of the chivalrous South, and a haunting meditation on what Valerie Martin has called "the fantastic and constant perversity of the oppressor to feel victimized by the oppressed."

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I watched him through the spyglass to see what the game would be.

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  • Title Property
  • Author Valerie Martin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nan A. Talese, New York
  • Date 2003
  • ISBN 9780385504089 / 038550408X
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 6.12 x 0.78 in (21.74 x 15.54 x 1.98 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002066846
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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