Property

ISBN: 9780375713309

³ö°æÉç: Vintage

³ö°æÄê: 2004-04-13

Ò³Êý: 208

¶¨¼Û: USD 13.00

×°Ö¡: Paperback

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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.