Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.
Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length10 hrs
Narrated byChristine Williams
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
10Chapter 10
2Chapter 2
11Chapter 11
3Chapter 3
12Chapter 12
4Chapter 4
13Chapter 13
5Chapter 5
14Chapter 14
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6Chapter 6
15Chapter 15
7Chapter 7
16Chapter 16
8Chapter 8
17Chapter 17
9Chapter 9
About the author
James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain (1892–1977) worked as a reporter during World War I and was managing editor at the New Yorker before going to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. His novels, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, and Double Indemnity, became film noir classics. In 1974, he was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America.View all by James M. Cain
