Mildred Pierce (1941).
By James M. Cain.
Published by Vintage
Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0679723218
ISBN-13: 978-0679723219
Description:
Mildred Pierce had
gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She
used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out
of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for men
and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements
James M. Cain created a novel of acute social observation and devastating
emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and suffering are never less
than recognizable.