Mildred Pierce

Title: Mildred Pierce
Author: James M Cain
ISBN: 9780679723219
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 1989
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Number of Pages: 304
Section: Fiction | Literary
Publisher Description: In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.

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 shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.