Property
By Valerie Martin
- Release Date: 2004-04-13
- Genre: Black Literature
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.
Reviews
Property. Don’t waste your time
1By ThatTeacherThis book is from the perspective/viewpoints of the Masters wife. She’s inconsiderate, selfish, bitter and boring as hell! I sure would like to get the perspective of sarah which was the House slave who had to endure the sexual abuse from the master. The author clearly got bored w/ writing this book and just decided to stop w/o ending it.Property
4By Snooks46Martin has written a book with a fascinating view of the reality of slavery in the 1800’s in America. While this book is fiction, it gave a very interesting perspective of how life very likely was during the time. It certainly provides the reader pause to think about slavery and the effects it had on our American culture and life.Great but disappointing ending
3By YoulikesoupThis book was a really good read, I just wish there was a sequel to it because the ending left me wanting more. It feels like I'm missing half the book.Waste of my time
1By Britt0777This book is foul. The author speaks from a slave owner point of person. She makes the women out to be a victim. That owning slaves and a emotionless husband made her to be some kind of charity case. It gets worse as the book comes to a pointless end. What exactly was the message at the end, what point was being made. This book truly bothered me. It angered me in a way that I can't exactly explain. I felt like the author believed the foul things she described. Terrible In my opinion.Property
5By SonnynfdA book that reflects on politics is something that has every bit of what is going on in the present world, but at a different expense of course. We are all property of someone or something. Bringing this to a wider concept, it is not just about being African American, or being women; it is about each and every person being the property of someone or something.
