Mildred Pierce (Crime masterworks, #27) (Wisconsin/Warner Brothers Screenplays S.)

by James M. Cain

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'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA TIMES

'Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best' MY WEEKLY

Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her. This is James M. Cain's most substantial novel and a classic of the Depression years.

  • ISBN10 0752882783
  • ISBN13 9780752882789
  • Publish Date 21 February 2008 (first published 12 April 1978)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 288
  • Language English