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Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain
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Description for Mildred Pierce
Paperback. 'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
'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.
Product Details
Publisher
Orion
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752882789
SKU
V9780752882789
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99-10
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.
Reviews for Mildred Pierce
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
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