McTeague is the story of a poor dentist scraping by in San Francisco at the end of the 19th century, and his wife Trina, whose $5,000 lottery winning sets in motion a shocking chain of events. Few works have captured the seamy side of American urban life with such graphic intensity.
ISBN: | 9780140187694 |
Publication date: | 1st August 1994 |
Author: | Frank Norris, Kevin Starr |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 442 pages |
Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |