"& Co"
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the bustling textile towns of early twentieth-century France, one family's relentless ambition to build a commercial dynasty lays bare the tensions between tradition and modernity, faith and assimilation, community and ruthless individualism. Jean-Richard Bloch's & Co chronicles the rise of the Simler family — Alsatian Jews navigating the turbulent currents of industrialisation and social upheaval — presenting a panoramic portrait of a society in the throes of transformation, where the pursuit of prosperity carries a profound and often devastating moral cost. A landmark of French modernist literature, the novel stands as a sweeping social fresco that argues the capitalist dream is inseparable from its human consequences. Bloch writes with the keen sociological eye of Zola and the psychological precision of Balzac, weaving individual fate into the grand tapestry of collective history. Translated into English by the celebrated C. K. Scott-Moncrieff — the same gifted hand that rendered Proust for the English-speaking world — this edition ensures that Bloch's rich, layered prose loses none of its power. Whether read as a study of Jewish identity in the modern age or as a timeless meditation on what is sacrificed in the name of success, & Co leaves its final question ringing long after the last page is turned.
Author: Jean-Richard Bloch
Format: Hardback
Published: 1930, Simon and Schuster
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the bustling textile towns of early twentieth-century France, one family's relentless ambition to build a commercial dynasty lays bare the tensions between tradition and modernity, faith and assimilation, community and ruthless individualism. Jean-Richard Bloch's & Co chronicles the rise of the Simler family — Alsatian Jews navigating the turbulent currents of industrialisation and social upheaval — presenting a panoramic portrait of a society in the throes of transformation, where the pursuit of prosperity carries a profound and often devastating moral cost. A landmark of French modernist literature, the novel stands as a sweeping social fresco that argues the capitalist dream is inseparable from its human consequences. Bloch writes with the keen sociological eye of Zola and the psychological precision of Balzac, weaving individual fate into the grand tapestry of collective history. Translated into English by the celebrated C. K. Scott-Moncrieff — the same gifted hand that rendered Proust for the English-speaking world — this edition ensures that Bloch's rich, layered prose loses none of its power. Whether read as a study of Jewish identity in the modern age or as a timeless meditation on what is sacrificed in the name of success, & Co leaves its final question ringing long after the last page is turned.