Property

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE – Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one’s interior life…. The writing–so prised and clean limbed–is a marvel” (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved).

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.

Author: Valerie Martin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 04/13/2004
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375713309
Language: English