{"title":"Valerie Martin","description":"VALERIE MARTIN is the author of eleven novels, four collections of short fiction, and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for Mary Reilly) and Britain's Orange Prize (for Property).","products":[{"product_id":"mary-reilly-paperback","title":"Mary Reilly - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eItalian Fever\u003c\/i\u003e and award-winning \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Part psychological novel, part social history, part eerie horror tale ... dark and moving and powerful.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character: Mary is a survivor--scarred but still strong--familiar with evil, yet brimming with devotion and love. As a bond grows between Mary and her tortured employer, she is sent on errands to unsavory districts of London and entrusted with secrets she would rather not know. Unable to confront her hideous suspicions about Dr. Jekyll, Mary ultimately proves the lengths to which she'll go to protect him. Through her astute reflections, we hear the rest of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, and this familiar tale is made more terrifying than we remember it, more complex than we imagined possible.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid. \u003cbr\u003eFaithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character: Mary is a survivor-scarred but still strong-familiar with evil, yet brimming with devotion and love. As a bond grows between Mary and her tortured employer, she is sent on errands to unsavory districts of London and entrusted with secrets she would rather not know. Unable to confront her hideous suspicions about Dr. Jekyll, Mary ultimately proves the lengths to which she'll go to protect him. Through her astute reflections, we hear the rest of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, and this familiar tale is made more terrifying than we remember it, more complex than we imagined possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102822076639,"sku":"9780375725999","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DlclhixhwE9780375725999.webp?v=1781087419"},{"product_id":"property-paperback-1","title":"Property - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE - Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMary Reilly \u003c\/i\u003epresents a \"fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing--so prised and clean limbed--is a marvel\" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eManon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exploring the permutations of Manon's own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eValerie Martin's Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery's venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress.\u003cbr\u003eExploring the permutations of Manon's own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104838521055,"sku":"9780375713309","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ktP8wRr9kV9780375713309.webp?v=1781111421"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/valerie-martin.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}