Mildred Pierce
(2010)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[S.l.]: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010
DESCRIPTION
304 p
ISBN/ISSN
9780307772930 gbkz9
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter
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