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The Postman Always Rings Twice

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On Sale
May 14, 1989
Page Count
128 pages
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN-13
9780679723257

Format

Trade Paperback

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Trade Paperback

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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.