Mildred Pierce - Cain James M.
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s… Celý popis ↓
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Mildred Pierce - Cain James M.
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman.
Out of these elements, Cain created a novel (later made into a film noir classic) of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence—and a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recogniza
Parametre
- Autor
- James M. Cain
- Jazyk
- anglické
- Počet strán
- 281
- Rok vydania
- 2008