Property

Description

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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Valerie Martin
Published: 04/13/2004
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780375713309
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.10″ W

About the Author
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).