Mildred Pierce

Author/Contributor(s):	Cain, James M.
Publisher:	Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Date:	5/14/1989
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.