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Foyles
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah, a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt, whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie. This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings. And if the attacks reach Manon's house, no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn . . .Beautifully written, PROPERTY is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change, where ownership is at once everything and nothing, and where belonging, by contrast, is all.
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Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans but most of all she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie. This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings. And if the attacks reach Manon's house no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn ...Beautifully written Property is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change where ownership is at once everything and nothing and where belonging by contrast is all.
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BookDepository
Property : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9780349117324 : : 04 Sep 2003 : * Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2003. * A powerful, startling novel set in America's Deep South in the early 19th century - a story of freedom, both political and personal.
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Blackwell
* Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2003. * A powerful, startling novel set in America's Deep South in the early 19th century - a story of freedom, both political and personal. Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana...
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ASDA
Property is theft so they say and in this novel the property is both an abundant sugar plantation and the former slave who is now the owner's mistress and the mother of his only child.
- 0349117322
- 9780349117324
- Valerie Martin
- 4 September 2003
- Abacus
- Paperback (Book)
- 224
- New edition
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