The Two Trick Pony
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Translated by Andrew Rothwell
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ABOUT THE BOOK
In a damp, gloomy shop in a Paris arcade, Thérèse lives a stifled life with her sickly husband Camille and his doting mother. When Camille brings home his old friend Laurent, a passionate affair begins — and the lovers decide that Camille must die. But the murder does not set them free: haunted by guilt and by each other, they are slowly destroyed by what they have done.
Zola's first great novel, published in 1867, caused a scandal for its cold, almost clinical look at desire, violence and remorse, and became an early manifesto of French Naturalism. This Oxford World's Classics edition, translated by Andrew Rothwell from the 1868 second edition, includes an introduction and notes.
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