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Book, 1992
Current format, Book, 1992, 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed., All copies in use.
Book, 1992
Current format, Book, 1992, 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed., All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
The bestselling sensation--and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century--that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger . The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film.
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, 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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