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Fiction, Crime & mystery, Classic crime
'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe
First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex and immediately became a bestseller.
The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America.
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Praise for The Postman Always Rings Twice: The classic crime novel and major movie
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The novel's rattling exuberance makes it impossible to read without becoming physically buzzed - SPIRIT & DESTINY
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