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, James M. Cain created a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
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Review:
Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best (MY WEEKLY)
Book Description:
'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0307946592
- ISBN 13 9780307946591
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages298
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