Career in C major and other fiction
(2013)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : MysteriousPress.com/Open Road : Made available through hoopla, 2013
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781480436435 (electronic bk.) MWT11561296, 1480436437 (electronic bk.) 11561296
LANGUAGE
English
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From a famous tough-guy writer, a collection of shockingly funny stories Ever since she got married, Doris has regretted giving up her singing career. After years of domestic drudgery, she decides to take one last crack at becoming an opera singer, even if it means sacrificing everything for the sake of her dream. Her contractor husband is fully supportive, having no idea that the family's true musical genius isn't Doris-it's him. In this and other stories in Career in C Major, James M. Cain shows off a light comedic touch that will surprise readers who are familiar only with his crime novels The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. But Cain had been publishing funny stories, articles, and satire since his early days as a reporter for H. L. Mencken's Baltimore Sun, and was just as comfortable writing about singers as he was about killers. This collection of Cain's lighter work shows that if an author is tough it doesn't mean he can't crack a smile

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