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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.
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Mistresses, Plantation owners' spouses, Slavery, Women slaves, Plantation life, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Slave insurrections, Fiction, Women slaves in fiction, Slave insurrections in fiction, Plantation life in fiction, Louisiana in fiction, Slavery in fiction, Plantation owners' spouses in fiction, Mistresses in fiction, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Large type books, Louisiana, fiction, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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February 5, 2004, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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