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Martin, Valerie 1948- (Author).

Woman slaveholder Manon Gaudet enters a socially advantageous marriage with a plantation owner only to see her young slave Sarah become her husband's mistress and bear his child, and is henceforth absorbed in her own misery leaving her blind to that of the slave she despises.

Book  - 2003
FIC Marti
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Victoria Available

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Subject
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Genre
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
  • ISBN: 038550408X
  • Physical Description print
    196 pages
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Publisher New York ; Toronto : Nan A. Talese, 2003.

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LSC 35.95