Property / Valerie Martin.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 196 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0349117322
- F/MAR 21
- PS3563.A7295 P76 2003
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | The Mico University College Fiction | Fiction | F/MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 64349 |
"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.
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