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n in this life, even if you dont ask for much you still end up with bugger all! nIn a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other peoples 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 nhusband 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 Gervaises life begins to spiral out of control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect. n nThe Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zolas 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 Zolas most powerful and graphic writing, nunforgettable portrayals of individuals and their environment, and the fine line between self-respect and ruin. nn
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Brand: Mile Zola
