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by Valerie Martin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus; First Edition edition (20 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349115834
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349115832
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 209,332 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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* 'A wonderful novel, vivid, revealing' - Carol Shields * 'This fresh, unsentimental look at what slaveowning does to (and for) one's interior life must be a first. And the writing - so prised and clean-limbed - is a marvel.' - Toni Morrison * 'A wonderful novel, vivid, revealing' - Carol Shields * 'This fresh, unsentimental look at what slaveowning does to (and for) one's interior life must be a first. And the writing - so prised and clean-limbed - is a marvel.' - Toni Morrison

The Los Angeles Times
‘It’s a novel fraught with tension, desperation and rage, all masterfully sustained until the bitter conclusion`

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, 17 Nov 2005
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I couldn't put this book down! Martin delivers a suspense-filled story that keeps you hooked from the first page until the very last, and still leaves you wanting more. As a student studying American Literature, "Property" has helped me immensely with understanding the sub-human view that white Americans had of the black slaves working on the plantations and how this prejudice caused inevitable uprisings. This is a modern novel with all the makings of a classic!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling and disturbing, 3 Sep 2004
By primitivegrrl "primitivegrrl" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Despite hating the main character, the narrator, and hating her life, husband, beliefs, actions. speech - I found this book to be utterly compelling. Normally when you read a book and despise the character that the narration asks you to identify with; you can't go on, you have to stop reading, but Martin manages to keep you hooked. Whether you want to see the character come to a fateful end or not, you really stick with this book. It's remarkable and well worthy of the Orange Prize. Now there's something to make you buy - a book that actually deserves its reward! I immediately bought the rest of Martin's works after reading this - praise indeed!
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5.0 out of 5 stars ultimately trapped by the morals of her day, 19 Dec 2003
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This book won the Orange prize for fiction and I can definitely see why. Set in the mid-1800s, it's the story of a girl from a "liberal" family in Southern America, who grew up amid a family who treated their slaves well. Married off to a man who is little more than a beast and also avails himself of slavegirls, she initially comes across as a model of modern morality. However a combination of sexual rivalry with one slavegirl in particular, and the constraints of the social conditions of her time take their toll with sad consequences. A gripping tale of how difficult it is to break away from social mores and a shockingly direct historical storyline make this one of the best books I've read this year. The characterisation of Manon Gaudet is very believable and yet impartial- she is portrayed as someone struggling to do her best in a time of incredible cruelty, and yet has human failings and jealousies too.
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