| Author: | James M. Cain | ISBN: | 9780307772930 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | December 29, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard | Language: | English |
| Author: | James M. Cain |
| ISBN: | 9780307772930 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | December 29, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Language: | English |
In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
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.
In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
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.
