L’Assommoir, by Emile Zola. It’s nearly impossible to translate the title, but the cover gives you an idea: Un assommoir is the kind of bar you go into for one purpose: to get loaded.
When I was in my 30s, I began reading novels in Émile Zola‘s “Rougon-Macquart” series. These novels followed
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