by James M. Cain · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429736038
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«Serenata» is the crime novel by James M. Cain, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (192 pages, in Catalan).
The protagonist, an opera singer who has lost his voice, meets a Mexican prostitute who returns him to his former life, with dramatic results. The novel combines romanticism and crime in a melodrama with Shakespearean overtones, and addresses homosexuality as a taboo subject in its era, which is why Hollywood adapted it late and with censorship.
The novel was originally published in 1937 under the title «Serenade». This Catalan edition, translated by Carme Geronès Planagumà, belongs to the Seleccions de la Cua de Palla collection.
For readers of crime fiction and literary fiction, especially fans of twentieth-century American classics.
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.
