OS007116 Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York, New York, USA 1982 First Edition Dust Jacket Very Good Hard Cover Very Good White paper on boards, tan cloth on spine. Volume has a rough spot on the top edge front corner. Jacket is chipped and a small tear on the top front corner of foldover. Now in clear cover. "Cain, with his great best-sellers of the 1930s, (The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity) dealing with passionate sex and lurid violence as no reputable fiction had ever done before, led Edmund Wilson to tag him as a 'poet of the tabloids'. (Mildred Pierce was published in 1941) While sensational fiction was his mainstay, before that stream of 'hardboiled' tales got under way there were some extraordinary achievements at the top level of American journalism. James M. Cain was a figure of enormous contradictions through his long and stormy career. In this book, the first real biography of this neglected and misunderstood American genius, we are given as full a picture of the man and his life as, in all likelihood, could have been or will ever be written. Roy Hoopes, a Washington journalist who came to know Cain well in his last years, had at this disposal a wealth of interviews with his subject and those who knew him well, and he was also left, for his usage, upon Cain's death the full inventory of the author's papers, including the extensive manuscripts of Cain's wholly unpublished memoirs." $18.00USD
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