ISBN: 9780307427342

Valerie Martin& #8217 s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery& #8217 s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana … Mehr…

Valerie Martin& #8217 s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery& #8217 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& #8217 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. Property: Valerie Martin& #8217 s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery& #8217 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& #8217 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. FICTION / Literary, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<

ISBN: 9780307427342

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 pl… Mehr…

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. From the Trade Paperback edition. Property: 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. FICTION / Literary, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<

2007, ISBN: 9780307427342

Valerie Martins Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slaverys venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where… Mehr…

Valerie Martins Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slaverys 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 Valerie Martins Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slaverys 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 Manons 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. From the Trade Paperback edition. eBooks, Fiction~~Modern & Contemporary, Property~~EBook~~9780307427342~~Valerie Martin, , Property, Valerie Martin, 9780307427342, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12/18/2007, , , , Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<

2007, ISBN: 9780307427342

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