{"product_id":"the-kill-9780812966374","title":"The Kill","description":"Here is a true publishing event-the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola's \u003ci\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/i\u003e (La Cur e) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the author's twenty-volume \u003ci\u003eRougon-Macquart\u003c\/i\u003e saga, it is a riveting story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe incestuous affair of Ren e Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Ren e's financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris becoming a modern metropolis and \"the capital of the nineteenth century.\" In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world's premier translators from the French, \u003ci\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/i\u003e contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by \"infernal intelligence.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this new incarnation, \u003ci\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/i\u003e joins \u003ci\u003eNana\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGerminal\u003c\/i\u003e on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who-explicit, pitiless, wise, and unrelenting-always goes in for the kill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812966374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Emile Zola","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44683426267317,"sku":"9780812966374","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ea1de71e-de59-4276-b62e-9792c473b744.jpg?v=1727795835","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-kill-9780812966374","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}