![]() ![]() ![]() Not that she doesn’t have things to be upset about: Her husband is a brutal bore and she hasn’t had a child yet, which hasn’t kept her husband from having an illegitimate one with Sarah, Manon’s slave. As narrator of this latest from Martin ( Salvation, 2001, etc.), Manon is a daring choice in that she’s little more than a petulant child and her racial attitudes aren’t what we would call enlightened, making her hardly someone to sympathize with. On a sugar plantation in Louisiana sometime before the Civil War, Manon Gaudet sulks about the house, unaware of the tensions building around her. ![]() A slave rebellion is about to erupt, and all one woman can think about is her failing marriage. ![]()
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