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by James M. Cain

Author: James M. Cain
Subcategory: Mystery
Language: English
Publisher: Orion Pub Co (November 30, 2005)
Pages: 128 pages
Category: Suspense and Mystery
Rating: 4.3
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The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain. The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century.

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. The novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time and caused it to be banned in Boston.

Home James M. Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice. The Postman Always Rings Twice, . Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, In. New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, In. in 1934.

Cain wrote stories about crime, sex, and betrayal. Born in Maryland in 1892, Cain moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting but found success as a novelist.

view Kindle eBook view Audible audiobook. Cain wrote stories about crime, sex, and betrayal. In 1948 he moved back to Maryland, where he continued to write until his death in 1977.

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James M. Cain's novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is a gritty story that is driven along by the plot at a pretty good clip. James Mallahan Cain (1892 - 1977) was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. The story is pretty enjoyable, though I didn't care for the convoluted.

This book and this writer have certainly had an enduring impact on not only the hard boiled mystery novel, but also on. .Frank Chambers is a con artist and a bum who James M Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice is a fun, racy hard boiled crime noir classic.

This book and this writer have certainly had an enduring impact on not only the hard boiled mystery novel, but also on literature and Hollywood. The book has been filmed seven times with most people agreeing that the 1946 version with John Garfield and Lana Turner was the best. The book was banned in Boston for being too sexually violent. First published in 1934 and banned in many places for its provocative scenes, the novella is a fun read full of memorable scenes. Cain was not. I had no idea who he was going into this book, but the names of the novels did ring a bell - The . 1930’s and crime did not pay in those times). I had no idea who he was going into this book, but the names of the novels did ring a bell - The Postman Always Rings Twice (which I’m writing about here) and Double Indemnity (which I will write about in a later stage) were known to me as names of movies. I did not know they were based on books. The introduction explains why Cain is part of this series very clearly.

It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus . Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger a Dead Man (Library of America) (Vol 1). Hardcover.

First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex, and immediately became a bestseller. The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America.