For other uses, see Mildred Pierce (disambiguation).
Mildred Pierce
Cover of the first edition
Author
James M. Cain
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Hardboiled novel, psychological thriller
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1941
Media type
Print (hardcover and paperback)
OCLC
2714770
Mildred Pierce is a psychological drama by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1941.[1]
A story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression, Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success.[2] The novel is one of four major works Cain wrote featuring opera as a key component in the plot (Serenade (1937), Career in C Major (1938) and The Moth (1948) are the others.)[3]
Mildred Pierce is Cain’s first effort to write a novel in the third-person narrative form, a departure from his earlier works of the 1930s, all of them confessional narratives written in the first-person.[4]
^Skenazy, 1989 p. 65-66: “There is no killing, no crime, and no conflicts with the law in the story…”
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