Mildred Pierce James M. Cain

Name: Mildred Pierce By James M. Cain
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Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

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Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA TIMES

'Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best' MY WEEKLY

Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her. This is James M. Cain's most substantial novel and a classic of the Depression years.

Mildred Pierce Reviews

Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best * MY WEEKLY *
Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people * SATURDAY REVIEW *
It is no accident that that movies based on three (of Cain's novels) helped to define the genre known as film noir * NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS *
After Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler Cain is the writer most often credited with defining the hard-boiled, the tough-talking, fast-moving urban stories of violence, sex and money that characterised so much popular film and fiction in America during the 1930s and 40s * GUARDIAN *
Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed. * LA TIMES *
Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best * MY WEEKLY *

About James M. Cain

James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001728551

ISBN 13

9780752882789

ISBN 10

0752882783

Title

Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

Author

James M. Cain

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

20080221

Number of pages

288

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