The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories: Introduction by Robert Polito (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Hardcover

Cain, James M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037541438X ISBN 13: 9780375414381

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Cain James M

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Críticas

"[James M. Cain is] a poet of the tabloid murder." -Edmund Wilson

"Nobody has quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler." -Tom Wolfe

"Mr. Cain is a real writer who can construct and tell an exciting story with dazzling swiftness . . . [his] work has a fast rhythm that is art." -Saturday Review of Literature

"Cain can get down to the primary impulses of greed and sex in fewer words than any writer we know of." -New York Times

Reseña del editor

Three classics from the noir master include signature pieces about murder, obsessive love, and psychological devotion; and are complemented by five short works including "Pastorale," "The Baby in the Icebox," "Dead Man," "Brush Fire," and "The Girl in the Storm." 15,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 037541438X
• ISBN 13: 9780375414381
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 632