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Serenade (Crime Masterworks)

Serenade (Crime Masterworks)

by JamesM.Cain (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 17 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0752861751
ISBN 13: 9780752861753
Book Overview: 'It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain's novels] helped to define the genre known as film noir' New York Review of Books 'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe 'Tersely written, explicit...in their depiction of sex and violence, Cain's crime stories are low-rent tragedies of obsession' Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction In Serenade, Cain draws on his own early training as a singer to give colour and depth to his narrator 'A poet of the tabloid murder' Edmund Wilson

Author Bio
James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977