{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e?mile Zola\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1840 and worked as a journalist before turning to fiction. He wrote his first major novel, \u003ci\u003eTh?r?se Raquin\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1867, and the publication of \u003ci\u003eL'Assommoir\u003c\/i\u003e ten years later made him the most famous writer in France. His work has influenced authors from August Strindberg to Theodore Dreiser to Tom Wolfe. He died in 1902.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872867488018,"sku":"9780812966374","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b2b43b0-b692-4e72-a2ee-2a6094dde8e2.jpg?v=1737913489","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-kill-9780812966374","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}