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- Edition:
- Unabridged (HarperAudio)
- Length:
- 2 hours, 50 minutes
- File Size:
- 77 MB (3 files)
- Published:
- April 2005
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Summary
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 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, 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.
Performed by Stanley Tucci
Quotes from the Critics
'The Postman Always Rings Twice' is so continuously exciting that if you can put it down before you've finished it, you are not the reader I think you are....I can't detect a stylistic flaw in the book." - New York Herald Tribune Book Review
"[E]verything that happens in this novel happens twice, the first time with a twist, the second time with a reverse twist." - New York Times Book Review
"Cain has developed the hard-boiled manner as a perfect instrument of narration....Cain is an old newspaper man who learned his reporting well, so well that he makes Hemingway look like a lexicographer....In the broadest sense he is no asset to American literature, for he adds nothing in breadth, but only in intensity, to our consciousness of life. But we want to see more of his work." - New York Times Book Review
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