The Postman Always Rings Twice

James M. Cain

Language: English

Publisher: Orion

Published: Dec 31, 1933

Pages: 126
ABC: 1

Description:

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*.

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