The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library Classics)

Cain, James M.

ISBN 10: 037541438X / ISBN 13: 9780375414381

Editore: Everyman's Library, 2003

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Titolo: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double ...

Casa editrice: Everyman's Library

Data di pubblicazione: 2003

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

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.

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“[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