The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain.
Description:
“A good, swift, violent
story.” – Dashiell Hammett.
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.
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.
“I make no conscious
effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually
called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget
that the average man … has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond
anything I could invent.” – James M. Cain.
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