Property: A Novel

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Property: A Novel

From the acclaimed author of Mary Reilly, a groundbreaking novel that reexamines the questions of power and resistance, violence and sex, which inform all her work.

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 slave holder. 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 husbandâ€™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 â€“ an uncensored, pitch-perfect voice from the heart of moral darkness.

PROPERTY is riveting fiction, fast, richly plotted, shimmering with visual detail. It is also an invitation to re-examine the traditions of the Southern novel and the myth of the chivalrous South, and a haunting meditation on what Valerie Martin has called â€œthe fantastic and constant perversity of the oppressor to feel victimized by the oppressed.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Nan A. Talese
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2003-02-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385504089

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Nan A. Talese
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2003-02-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385504089

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