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An edition of Property (2002)

Property

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The tragedies and emotional repercussions of slavery in the antebellum South are seen through the eyes of slave owner Manon Gaudet, who marries the owner of a sugar plantation, only to see her own slave, Sarah, become her husband's mistress.

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Nan A. Talese
Language
English
Pages
196

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Subjects

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, general

Places

Louisiana

Times

19th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: Property
Property
April 13, 2004, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Property
Property
February 5, 2004, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Cover of: Property
Property
2003, Nan A. Talese
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Property
Property
2003, Nan A. Talese
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Property
Property
2003, Center Point Pub.
in English - Center Point large print ed.
Cover of: Property
Property: A Novel
February 18, 2003, Nan A. Talese
in English
Cover of: Property
Property
2002, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
in English

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.A7295 P76 2003, PS3563.A7295P76 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
196 p. ;
Number of pages
196

ID Numbers

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OL24774994M
Internet Archive
property00mart
ISBN 10
038550408X
ISBN 13
9780385504089
LCCN
2002066846
OCLC/WorldCat
49576479

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Work Description

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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