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Due to the social context of the antebellum south in which manon was raised, she was taught to fragment herself. Property, the us writer valerie martins seventh novel, shortlisted for this years orange prize for fiction, probes similar ironies by transposing. Property by valerie martin pdf free download ebook. I watched him through the spyglass to see what the game would be. The year is 1828, the setting a louisiana sugar plantation where manon gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously selfabsorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. Read property by valerie martin available from rakuten kobo. Manon gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a louisiana sugar plantation. May 31, 2003 property by valerie martin 212pp, abacus.
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