The novelisation of a film which tells a story of lust, violence, greed and revenge, and the perfect murder. Perfect until a mistaken justice overtakes the murderers. Reissued for the BLOOMSBURY FILM CLASSICS series.
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" A good, swift, violent story." --Dashiell Hammett
" A poet of the tabloid murder." --Edmund Wilson
-A good, swift, violent story.- --Dashiell Hammett
-A poet of the tabloid murder.- --Edmund Wilson
"A good, swift, violent story." --Dashiell Hammett
'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First printing in this format. Film tie-in featuring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange to the cover. A sound, clean copy with no reading wear. Seller Inventory # 007766
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 124 pages. cover worn, text tanned, The Postman Always Rings Twice: Seller Inventory # 3944x
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. A very good first paperback edition copy, film scene to front cover. Wear to one corner. Seller Inventory # 038102
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Paperback. 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, andacknowledged 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. Seller Inventory # 26174716
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Pan, London, 1981. First Softcover Edition Thus, First Printing. NEAR FINE+ softcover book in pictorial/illustrated wraps, as issued. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. Seller Inventory # SKU1026225
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