James M. Cain: Four Complete Novels - Cain, James M. 1.20kg

Hardcover. English. Avenel. 1982. 651pp.

In fair/good condition with edgeworn dw.

The Postman Always Rings Twice/Mildred Pierce/Double Indemnity/Serenade

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.