The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories: Introduction by...

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James M. Cain Robert Polito

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories

Introduction by Robert Polito

James M. Cain, Robert Polito, Robert Polito

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Everyman Hardcovers
22 July 2003

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Crime & Mystery

Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

These three classics from the master of the noir

novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the

taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that

were James M. Cain's indelible hallmarks.

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain's

first novel-the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston, the inspiration for Camus's The Stranger-is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into

an erotic obsession, and into a murder. Double Indemnity-which followed Postman so

quickly, Cain's readers hardly had a chance to catch their breath-is a tersely narrated

story of blind passion, duplicity, and, of course, murder. Mildred Pierce, a work

of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale

of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous

daughter. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Also included

here are five masterful stories-""Pastorale,"" ""The Baby in the Icebox,"" ""Dead Man,""

""Brush Fire,"" ""The Girl in the Storm""-that have been out of print for decades.

By: James M. Cain, Robert Polito
Introduction by: Robert Polito
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 663g
ISBN: 9780375414381
ISBN 10: 037541438X
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Pages: 632
Publication Date: 22 July 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories: Introduction by Robert Polito

[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