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Property / Valerie Martin. - 1st ed. - New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003. - 196 p. ; 22 cm.

"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.

ISBN: 0349117322

LCCN: 2002066846

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Plantation owners' spouses--Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
Slave insurrections--Fiction.
Plantation life--Fiction.
Women slaves--Fiction.
Mistresses--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Louisiana--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3563.A7295 / P76 2003

Dewey Class. No.: F/MAR