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A Moment of Truth: The Life of Zola [Secure Mobipocket]
eBook by Hugh McLeave
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eBook Category: Historical Fiction
eBook Description:  A Moment of Truth is a biographical novel of the life and times of Zola. It is also a cultural fresco of late nineteenth-century France. A Moment of Truth tells of Zola's early struggle against poverty and incomprehension; his blood-brother friendship with Paul Cezanne; his backing of the scorned Impressionists; his monumental creation of twenty Rougon-Macquart novels depicting and dissecting the French Second Empire in raw and often lurid prose. Finally, this book details Zola's courageous combat against the whole French establishment to win justice for an obscure Jewish captain, Alfred Dreyfus. Zola's unremitting battle for justice in L'Affaire Dreyfus caused his own death in 1902. Every page of A Moment of Truth can be traced to Zola's letters, dossiers and other documents and authorities. A Moment of Truth provides new material on Zola's early life and the mystery of his premature death.
eBook Publisher: Boson Books/Boson Books, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2003
Available eBook Formats [Secure Mobipocket - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT [512 KB]
All formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Microsoft Reader ISBN: 9780917990328
Adobe Reader ISBN: 9785551261032
Mobipocket Reader ISBN: 0917990323
 
"Few literary figures match Zola in strength of conviction, and this fictional rendering of his life provides a rewarding insight into the motivations of the French novelist/activist. Scotsman McLeave, the author of two dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, skillfully traces Zola's life through his early friendship with painter Paul Cézanne, his marriage to Cézanne's former lover, and his prolific literary achievements. Zola yearned to write poetry from an early age, but Paris publisher Louis Hachette urged him to write fiction, thus irrevocably changing the face of the 19th-century French novel. McLeave recounts Zola's school failures and years of despair and traces the evolution of his approach to literature and creativity. Along the way readers encounter Cézanne, Flaubert, Monet, and a score of France's great literary, social, and political figures. Historically accurate, entertaining, and easy to read and navigate, this eBook original is highly recommended."--Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., AL Library Journal, Fall 2001
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