RARA-AVIS: James Cain

From: Robison Michael R CNIN ( Robison_M@crane.navy.mil)
Date: 17 Oct 2002

Besides THE POSTMAN and DOUBLE INDEMNITY, are any of James Cain's other novels really good? I've kinda heard mixed reviews of SERENADE, THE MOTH, and MILDRED PIERCE. Oates dwells on them quite a bit in her essay on him in Madden's TOUGH GUY WRITERS OF THE THIRTIES, but somewhere else I read that none of his later works were on par with his first two novels.

Thanks, miker

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