Foreign language books Fiction Detective and spy stories James M. Cain: Three by Cain - Serenade, Love's Lovely Sounterfeit, The Butterfly

James M. Cain: Three by Cain - Serenade, Love's Lovely Sounterfeit, The Butterfly

All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity.
ISBN: 9780679723233
Author: James M. Cain
Page: 456
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 1989
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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Serenade describes the lethal triangle of a famous opera singer, a young conductor, and a Mexican-Indian prostitute. In Love's Lovely Counterfeit a group of gangsters struggles to maintain its stranglehold on a Midwestern city. Set in the mining countryof Appalachia, The Butterfly is a hair-raising story of incest and mistaken identity. All three books are classic examples of the roman noir, written with telegraphic succinctness and an enduring vision of the dark corners of the American psyche.

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