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The Assommoir (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Assommoir (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with
bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart
struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a
pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local
washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to
start her business she must incur debt, and her feckless husband
cannot resist the lure of the Assommoir, the local bar that
supplies all the working men with cheap spirits and absinthe. As
her money troubles grow, so Gervaise's life begins to spiral out of
control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect.
The Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series.
In it he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass,
living in overcrowded tenements, addicted to drink, a world of
squalor, and casual violence. It contains some of Zola's most
powerful and graphic writing, unforgettable portrayals of
individuals and their environment, and the fine line between
self-respect and ruin.
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