A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE`Adam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English text' Daily Telegraph`[Adam Thorpe] brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task, which goes some way towards returning us to that sense of unnerving immediacy which the young Zola's novel would have given its readers in 1867' Times Literary SupplementMysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out... the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected... oh yes, there's many a murderer basking in the sun..., When Therese Raquin is forced to marry the sickly Camille, she sees a bare life stretching out before her, leading every evening to the same cold bed and every morning to the same empty day. Escape comes in the form of her husband's friend, Laurent, and Therese throws herself headlong into an affair. There seems only one obstacle to their happiness; Camille., They plot to be rid of him. But in destroying Camille they kill the very desire that connects them... First published in 1867, Therese Raquin has lost none of its power to enthral., Adam Thorpe's unflinching translation brings Zola's dark and shocking masterwork to life.
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"Adam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English text" (Anthony Cummins Daily Telegraph)
"Anyone who thinks the British contingent brought lurid literature effing and blinding its way to life in the 1990s should be force-fed Emile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin, which, in Adam Thorpe's stark new translation, is revealed in all its queasy glory as a shockingly effective literary mash-up of pulp fiction, melodrama and grimly unflinching social realism" (Tina Jackson Metro)
"The translator of this new edition in English, Adam Thorpe...brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task... This handsome Vintage Classics edition contains some useful editorial matter, but not Zola’s own preface to the second edition. In that sense, then, it comes close to returning us to the baldness (and boldness) of the original Naturalist document" (Times Literary Supplement)
"[Adam Thorpe] brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task, which goes some way towards returning us to that sense of unnerving immediacy which the young Zola's novel would have given its readers in 1867" (Nicholas White Times Literary Supplement)
"This story seeps into your insides" (Kate Winslet)
A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE
‘Adam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English text’ Daily Telegraph
When Thérèse Raquin is forced to marry her cousin, the spoilt and sickly Camille, she sees a life of loneliness and boredom stretching out before her. Escape comes in the form of her husband’s friend, the brutish Laurent, and Thérèse throws herself headlong into an affair. There seems only one obstacle to their happiness: Camille. But in plotting to be rid of him they risk the very desire that connects them.
‘A very dark book but a magnificent read’ Kirsty Wark
See also: Madame Bovary
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