Mildred Pierce (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
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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, Cain creates 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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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, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
Mildred Pierce (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Mildred Pierce (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard),James M. Cain,Vintage,0679723218,Conflict of generations,Fiction,Fiction - Mystery/ Detective,Mothers and daughters,Mystery & Detective - General,Mystery/Suspense,Single mothers,Triangles (Interpersonal relat,Triangles (Interpersonal relations),Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General,Modern fiction
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