089539
London
1985
13×19,5
meki
633
engleski
Price: 10,00 EUR
A seminal edition that brings together in one place five key and most celebrated literary works by one of the founding fathers of American hardboiled crime fiction and noir prose. This monumental omnibus collection features novels that permanently redefined the crime fiction genre: the timeless classic The Postman Always Rings Twice, the passionate and dark drama Serenade, the cult psychological thrillers and family dramas Mildred Pierce and The Butterfly, and the iconic masterpiece of fatal attraction and crime Double Indemnity. In these works, James M. Cain masterfully abandons the classic perspective of a detective solving a mystery, instead presenting the plot entirely from the perpetrator's point of view, stripping bare human instincts, greed, passion, and the harsh reality of American society with a distinctive, sharp realism completely devoid of sentimentality. All the included novels went on to receive legendary and multi-award-winning Hollywood film adaptations. The front cover of the edition is visually striking and recognizable, adorned with a dramatic, grainy black-and-white noir photograph of a man lying motionless on the pavement next to a fallen hat, perfectly capturing the dark and tense atmosphere that awaits within the pages. James M. Cain (1892–1977) was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who, alongside Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, is considered one of the three pillars of hardboiled and noir literature. Born in Maryland, he began his career as a journalist writing for numerous reputable newspapers, and during the Great Depression, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked on screenplays for years. His literary style is characterized by an exceptionally fast pace, short, sharp sentences, stripped-down, gritty and authentic dialogue, and deep psychological characterization of marginalized characters who, under the influence of femme fatales and their own greed, hurtle
