The Postman Always Rings Twice: The classic crime novel and major movie

The Postman Always Rings Twice: The classic crime novel and major movie

by James Lee Burke (Foreword), James M. Cain (Author)

Synopsis

'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 116
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Jan 2005

ISBN 10: 075286436X
ISBN 13: 9780752864365
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The novel's rattling exuberance makes it impossible to read without becoming physically buzzed * SPIRIT & DESTINY *
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 1920s. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.