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Frank Chambers, a drifter, is dropped from the back of a truck at a rundown rural diner. When he spots Cora, the owner's wife, he instantly decides to stay. The sexy young woman, married to Nick, a violent and thuggish boor, is equally attracted to the younger man and sees him as her way out of her hopeless, boring life. They begin a clandestine affair and plot to kill Nick, beginning their own journey toward destruction.
Horace McCoy, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and the other notable noir writers never achieved Cain's spare brilliance. Virtually all of his major works have been filmed, though several Hollywood studios refused to make the films, directors refused to be involved, and actors turned down roles because of their repugnance at the lack of morality inherent in all Cain's characters. Reading him may not be fit for a Sunday school class, but once you begin you will be unable to resist continuing, like picking at a painful scab or watching a tarantula inside a glass dome. --Otto Penzler
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The bestselling sensationand one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th centurythat was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film.An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solutiona solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. 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 The Stranger. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679723257
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