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The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (2005, Unabridged, Compact Disc) 
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (2005, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

 
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (2005, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

Publisher: Harperaudio
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 0060756675
ISBN-13: 9780060756673
Product ID: EPID30873330
Description: In 1934, fired from Paramount Pictures where he had been writing screenplays, Cain published THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, his first novel. Frank Chambers is a drifter who wanders into a tavern and takes a job working for the owner. Me...
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Synopsis
In 1934, fired from Paramount Pictures where he had been writing screenplays, Cain published THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, his first novel. Frank Chambers is a drifter who wanders into a tavern and takes a job working for the owner. Meanwhile, he begins an affair with the tavern owner's wife and is soon helping her plan the murder of her husband.

Details
Publication Date:2005-04-01
Narrated by:Stanley Tucci
Edition Description:Unabridged

Size
Height:5.8 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Publisher's Note

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.

Performed by Stanley Tucci



Industry Reviews
"A good, swift, violent story."
Dashiell Hammett

"Let us consider 'Postman' as an example of Cain's craftsmanship at its finest."
Reference Books - Joyce Carol Oates

'The Postman Always Rings Twice' is so continuously exciting that if you can put it down before you've finished it, you are not the reader I think you are....I can't detect a stylistic flaw in the book."
New York Herald Tribune Book Review - Franklin P. Adams (02/18/1934)

"[E]verything that happens in this novel happens twice, the first time with a twist, the second time with a reverse twist."
New York Times Book Review - Ross Macdonald

"Cain has developed the hard-boiled manner as a perfect instrument of narration....Cain is an old newspaper man who learned his reporting well, so well that he makes Hemingway look like a lexicographer....In the broadest sense he is no asset to American literature, for he adds nothing in breadth, but only in intensity, to our consciousness of life. But we want to see more of his work."
New York Times Book Review - Harold Strauss (02/18/1934)

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