James M. Cain war bereits zu Lebzeiten Literaturgeschichte, will heißen, am Markt abgemeldet. Aber er schrieb bis an sein Ende weiter, und so lag in seinem Nachlass lange unbeachtet das Manuskript eines Romans, der 2012 veröffentlicht wurde: “Abserviert”.
Schlagwort-Archive: James M. Cain
Essay: Nothing More American: On James M. Cain
With its artlessly perfekt first sentence — “They threw me off the hay truck about noon” — James M. Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice” drew a line in the sand as defiant as any in literature since “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.
Rezensionen: James M. Cain, Donna Leon, Yrsa Sigurdardotti, Tania Carver
Laura Wilson has read – and reviewed: “The Cocktail Waitress” by James M. Cain, “The Jewels of Paradise” by Donna Leon, “I Remember You” by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and “Choked” by Tania Carver.
Rezension: James M. Cain: “The Cocktail Waitress”
When people talk about James M. Cain these days, it tends to be in reverential tones – he’s earned a spot as one of the “big three,” the giants of hardboiled crime fiction whose works are considered classics (the other two being Hammett and Chandler).
Rezension: James M. Cain: “The Cocktail Waitress”
Cain died in 1977 at age 85, his immense popularity long on the wane. “The Cocktail Waitress” was the manuscript he labored over in his final years. Or perhaps manuscripts is a better description.
Rezension: James M. Cain: “The Cocktail Waitress”
Along with Hammett, Cain was the preeminent practitioner of the American “hardboiled” school. These “poets of the tabloid murder,” as Edmund Wilson memorably christened them, present, certain unpleasant realities otherwise ignored in American literature.
Buchvorstellungen: Cain, Gerritsen, Winslow, Billingham, Welsh
The best recent crime and thrillers: August 19. A lost novel by James M Cain, the latest from Rizzoli and Isles, plus Louise Welsh’s “The Girl on the Stairs” and Don Winslow’s “The Kings of Cool”.