The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 2 Cassettes)

Cain, James M.

ISBN 10: 0394556380 / ISBN 13: 9780394556383

Editore: Random House Audio, USA, 1986

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• Titolo: The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 2 Cassettes)
• Editore: Random House Audio, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0394556380
• ISBN 13: 9780394556383
• Rilegatura: Audio Book (Cassette)
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

An amoral young tramp.  A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband.  A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Informazioni sull?autore

James Mallahan Cain (1892 - 1977) was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore, the son of the president of Washington College, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for <i>The Cross of Lorraine</i>, the newspaper of the 79th Division. He returned from the war to embark on a literay career that included a professorship at St. John’s College in Annapolis and a stint at <i>The New Yorker</i> as managing editor before he went to Hollywood as a script writer. Cain’s famous first novel, <b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b>, was published in 1934 when he was forty-two, and became an instant sensation. It was tried for obscenity in Boston and was said by Albert Camus to have inspired his own book, &l