![]() ![]() Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. ![]() It is a short book-little more than a novella-but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader's memory" (Otto Penzler). Hero Frank Chambers wants what he wants he can literally smell it. ![]() The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. Cain remedies that situation in this hot little 100 pages of noir splendor. Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. "It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. A very nice example, rare and desirable signed. Cain illustrated by Patrick Leger published by Folio Society (STOCK CODE: 1817018) for sale by Stella. It is narrated by Frank Chambers, a drifter who has been locked up in quite a few states already. First published in 1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. The Postman always Rings Twice is a fast, sultry little novel. A problem that has only one grisly solutiona solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE written by James M. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown. $20,000.00 Item Number: 114122įirst edition of one of the most important crime novels of the twentieth century, adapted as a motion picture seven times. ![]()
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