Mildred Pierce / James M. Cain.
Publication details: London : Phoenix, 2011.Description: 281 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781780220727 (pbk.)
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | CAI | Available | 048111 |
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Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
CRIME & MYSTERY. "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. James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War I, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920s. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.