The Postman Always Rings Twice

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James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892–October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir."

He was born into an Irish Catholic family in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a prominent educator and an opera singer. He inherited his love for music from his mother, but his high hopes of starting a career as a singer himself were thwarted when she told him that his voice was not good enough.

After graduating from Washington College where his father, James W. Cain served as president, in 1910, he began working as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun.

He was drafted into the United States Army and spent the final year of World War I in France writing for an Army magazine. On his return to the United States he continued working as a journalist, writing editorials for the New York World and articles for American Mercury. He also served briefly as the managing editor of The New Yorker, but later turned to screenplays and finally to fiction.

Although Cain spent many years in Hollywood working on screenplays, his name only appears on the credits of three films, Algiers, Stand Up and Fight, and Gypsy Wildcat.

His first novel (he had already published Our Government in 1930), The Postman Always Rings Twice was published in 1934. Two years later the serialized, in Liberty Magazine, Double Indemnity was published.

He made use of his love of music and of the opera in particular in at least three of his novels: Serenade (about an American opera singer who loses his voice and who, after spending part of his life south of the border, re-enters the States illegally with a Mexican prostitute in tow), Mildred Pierce (in which, as part of the subplot, the only daughter of a successful businesswoman trains as an opera singer) and Career in C Major (a short semi-comic novel about the unhappy husband of an aspiring opera singer who unexpectedly discovered that he has a better voice than she does).

He continued writing up to his death at the age of 85. His last three published works, The Baby in the Icebox (1981), Cloud Nine (1984) and The Enchanted Isle (1985) being published posthumously. However, the many novels he published from the late 1940s onward never quite rivaled his earlier successes.

出版者:Vintage
作者:James M. Cain
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页数:128
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出版时间:1989-5-14
价格:USD 13.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780679723257
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  • 小说 
  • 英文原版 
  • James.M.Cain 
  • 美国 
  • 美国文学 
  • J.M.Cain 
  • 推理 
  • Fiction 
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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 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, 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 .

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一名过于真挚的读者往往会犯的一个错误,或者用习惯来形容更加贴切,就是在小说中担任侦探的角色。我们沉溺于挖掘证据,追寻蛛丝马迹的线索,追赶着谋杀过后的侦探式逻辑推理。甚至是草木皆兵的氛围中,我们站在昏暗的故事核心,仪式般的等待凶杀的结局。 至于是否是”一大推矫...  

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《邮差总按两遍铃》是美国作家詹姆斯•M.凯恩出版于1934年的处女作,是他一生中写过最好的小说,也是黑色类型文学的开山之作,直接影响了后世黑色电影的创作之路,恐怕这是作者詹姆斯•M.凯恩意料之外的。这部字里行间充斥着宗教意味的黑色小说秉持当时刚刚行起的冷硬文风...  

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没读原版,听了BBC的广播剧。挺讽刺的故事。

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fuck film classes!

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deader than hell.

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比中文版冷硬了好多!!

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武大郎、潘金莲、西门庆的hardboiled版,苦命的野鸳鸯,他俩是真爱哇。虽说有声书的朗读已很好,但BBC广播剧貌似情节更紧凑、情话讲得我听犹怜。

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