by James M. Cain · Orion Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780752852041
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«Mildred Pierce» is the crime novel by James M. Cain, published by Orion Paperbacks in paperback (288 pages, in English).
After being abandoned by her husband, Mildred Pierce brings up her children with determination and hard work, and manages to build a thriving business in the midst of the Great Depression. But her blind devotion to her spoiled, selfish daughter and her weakness for unreliable men expose her to deceit and betrayal among those closest to her.
Volume 25 of the Crime Masterworks collection. The novel was originally published in 1941 and is considered a classic of the Depression years.
For readers of crime fiction and twentieth-century American classics, and for those who want to discover the work behind its famous film adaptation.
James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
