Property / Valerie Martin.
By: Martin, Valerie
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BookPublisher: London : Abacus, c2003Description: 212 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780349117324.Subject(s): Plantation owners' spouses -- Fiction | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | Slave insurrections -- Fiction | Plantation life -- Fiction | Women slaves -- Fiction | Mistresses -- Fiction | Slavery -- Fiction | Louisiana -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Review: "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 slaveholder. 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.Summary: 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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"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 slaveholder. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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