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Serenade
James M. Cain
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Description for Serenade
Paperback. 'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEW Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEW
Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780220208
SKU
V9781780220208
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About James M. Cain
James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.
Reviews for Serenade
Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people
SATURDAY REVIEW
It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain's novels] helped to define the genre known as film noir
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS
the story builds ... Read more
SATURDAY REVIEW
It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain's novels] helped to define the genre known as film noir
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS
the story builds ... Read more