L'Assommoir: Les Rougon-Macquart #7 - 9781546598169

The novel is principally the story of Gervaise Macquart, who is featured briefly in the first novel in the series, La Fortune des Rougon, running away to Paris with her shiftless lover Lantier to work as a washerwoman in a hot, busy laundry in one of the seedier areas of the city.L'Assommoir begins with Gervaise and her two young sons being abandoned by Lantier, who takes off for parts unknown with another woman. Though at first she swears off men altogether, eventually she gives in to the advances of Coupeau, a teetotal roofing engineer, and they are married.

Author: Zola Emile, Mybook

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: May 10, 2017

Number of Pages: 244 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1546598162

ISBN-13: 9781546598169