{"product_id":"9780982957981","title":"The Kill","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere 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 Curée) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe incestuous affair of Renée Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renée’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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"rapier press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017604415728,"sku":"9780982957981","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982957981_p0.jpg?v=1763879545","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982957981","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}