Pot luck

Émile Zola

Zola's most acerbic social satire, Pot Luck is set in a newly constructed block of flats in the Rue de Choiseul, Paris. Although it seems a place of prosperity and harmony, it is riddled with snobbery and hypocrisy. Systematically exposing the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of adulteries and betrayals, and depicts a veritable `melting pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language, and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.

Author(s): Zola, Émile
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 29/01/2009
Pagination: 381 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Published By: Oxford University Press
Book Classification: Literary studies: general|Classic fiction
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 19
Weight: 285
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780199538706