The Postman Always Rings Twice - by James M Cain (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A young vagrant and the sexy, bored wife of a restaurant owner plan to murder her husband, with unexpected results. One of the master works of hard-boiled detective fiction now reformatted for a much broader audience.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. <p/>First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, <b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b> is a classic of the <i>roman noir</i>. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for <i>The Stranger</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A good, swift, violent story." --Dashiell Hammett <p/>"A poet of the tabloid murder." --Edmund Wilson<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>James Mallahan Cain (1892-1977) was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore, the son of the president of Washington College, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for <i>The Cross of Lorraine</i>, the newspaper of the 79th Division. He returned from the war to embark on a literay career that included a professorship at St. John's College in Annapolis and a stint at <i>The New Yorker</i> as managing editor before he went to Hollywood as a script writer. Cain's famous first novel, <b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b>, was published in 1934 when he was forty-two, and became an instant sensation. It was tried for obscenity in Boston and was said by Albert Camus to have inspired his own book, <b>The Stranger</b>. The infamous novel was staged in 1936, and filmed in 1946 and 1981. The story of a young hobo who has an affair with a married woman and plots with her to murder her husband and collect his insurance, <b>The Postman Always Rings Twice</b> is a benchmark of classic crime fiction and film noir. Two of Cain's other novels, <b>Mildred Pierce</b> (1941) and <b>Double Indemnity</b> (1943), were also made into film noir classics. In 1974, James M. Cain was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Cain published eighteen books in all and was working on his autobiography at the time of his death.
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