Three by Cain

Three by Cain PDF Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307791793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity.

Three by Cain

Three by Cain PDF Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307791793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Book Description
All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity.

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce PDF Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307772934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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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.

Serenade

Serenade PDF Author: James Mallahan Cain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Hårdkogt amerikansk roman fra 30'erne om en sanger, der indvikles i intriger, hver gang han mister stemmen

Cain

Cain PDF Author: George Cabot Lodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cain
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Career in C Major

Career in C Major PDF Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480436437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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DIVDIVFrom a famous tough-guy writer, a collection of shockingly funny stories/divDIV 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./divDIV 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./divDIV/div/div

The Embezzler

The Embezzler PDF Author: James Mallahan Cain
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Project Cain

Project Cain PDF Author: Geoffrey Girard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442476982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Fifteen-year-old Jeff Jacobson learns that not only was he cloned from infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's blood as part of a top-secret government experiment, but there are other clones like him and he is the only one who can track them down before it is too late.

James M. Cain

James M. Cain PDF Author: Paul Skenazy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity PDF Author: James M. Cain
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1409132382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie 'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES 'Cain is the master' Tom Wolfe DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust. Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the insurance. It'll be the perfect murder . . .

Cain's Book

Cain's Book PDF Author: Alexander Trocchi
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802133144
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe's world is the half-world of drugs and addicts -- the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one's rules but his own. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi's muse was drugs. But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the "fix," is central to Cain's Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology. "Cain's Book is the classic late-1950s account of heroin addiction. . . . An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre." -- William S. Burroughs