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Sapphira and the Slave Girl

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A dying plantation owner's obsession with a young enslaved woman spirals into madness, and the two women are drawn together in an act of violence that neither can escape. Willa Cather's final novel is a stark, unflinching portrait of Southern life before the Civil War, told through the eyes of a bitter white woman whose jealousy curdles into something monstrous.

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Willa Siebert Cather was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willa_Cather

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Sapphira Dodderidge ColbertProtagonist
NancySupporting

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