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Availability:In StockContributor:Valerie MartinSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:2004-04-13Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375713309ISBN-10:375713301UPC:9780375713309Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, African American & BlackBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC4ZKQG31Q
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375713309ISBN-10:375713301UPC:9780375713309Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, African American & BlackBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC4ZKQG31Q
VALERIE MARTIN is the author of eleven novels, four collections of short fiction, and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for Mary Reilly) and Britain's Orange Prize (for Property).
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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