Mildred Pierce (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
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ISBN: 0307946592 / Publisher: Vintage, March 2011
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She use...
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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. Out of these elements, James M. Cain created a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
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