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    <body><![CDATA[A short, severe read<br/><br/>The day before Thanksgiving I picked up the books I’d ordered at my local library. I wanted to be sure there were plenty of choices at home since the library would be closed for two days. I found my stash on the “hold” shelf where I recognized the first two book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39384493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[That America was built on the free labor of its slaves is common knowledge and many have heard the axiom , &quot;Our possessions possess us&quot; as well as &quot;the sins of the fathers are vistited upon the heads of the children.&quot;  It's hard to determine how many have considered what an insti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22085551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was livid at the end (or the last page) of this book.  It was like it ended in the middle of the book!  As I was heading toward the last 10 pages of this book, I kept wondering, &quot;How is she going to finish this in 10 pages?&quot;.  Well....she didn't.  It just stopped.  Nothing resolved.  It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29364458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     I first heard of Valerie Martin when I came across a review of THE CONFESSION OF EDWARD DAY. I read it in a single gulp, and searched for other works by this author.  PROPERTY is mesmerizing, disturbing, evocative and haunting. Although none of the characters is what I would describe as &quot;s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73949352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Shocking and disturbing, yet compulsive reading about the master slave relationship that took place in America’s Deep South in the early nineteenth century.<br/>At the centre of the story is the narrator Manon Gaudet  a New Orleans girl who is married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74746971">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed this book, which is odd as I found most of the characters particularly disagreeable and unpleasant. <br/><br/>It was interesting to find a book in the 'slave fiction' genre that was told from the perspective of the slave owner as it's become far more common to hear the 'voice' ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68040807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This a short book that kept me up late finishing it, in spite of its infuriating narrator. She is the spoiled and self-centered wife of a cruel plantation holder, yet has only a little more freedom (and less gumption) than the slave who is both her maid and her husband's mistress. The fate of each o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27800557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A seemingly realistic portrayal of slavery in Louisiana in 1828.  It is grim stuff and all the characters are unlikeable.  Manon is the narrator – she hates her husband, who is having an affair with one of their slaves, Sarah.  Manon is tough, clever and even a bit funny but still consistently cru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48459873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hoping this would be a four-star book.  Lots to like about it.  The view of plantation life from the perspective of the owner's wife is different and fascinating.  I actually enjoyed the generally nasty attitude of the main character (hey, she has lots to be unhappy about).  The story definite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38462763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rarely have I read any book this disturbing.  I was absorbed almost from the start.  A very interior book about a slave and her feelings about life and of course, being property.<br/><br/>A short, wrenching read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is by the same author of Mary Reilly, which I've never read but remember that Julia Roberts played an unglamourous role in the movie version. Property is very, very short, but also incredibly powerful. The story's protagonist is a Creole white woman who lives on a plantation and the plot r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64273326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As one of the judges for the Orange Prize said about this book; &quot;Property is the opposite of exuberant...it looks at relationships of power and ownership among people living in a system which is manifestly evil. They are being damaged by their system, you can see it damaging them, yet they neve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70564805">more...</a>]]></body>
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