> I also liked Love's Lovely Counterfeit and The
Butterfly.
>
> -Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto:
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca] On
> Behalf Of Robison Michael R CNIN
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:04 AM
> To: '
rara-avis@icomm.ca'
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: James Cain
>
> 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
Like Dave, I also enjoyed THE BUTTERFLY (haven't read LOVE'S
LOVELY COUNTERFEIT) but I'd have to say that the first 2
novels are the essential ones. There's also a good short
story collection that Penguin put out in pb in the 1980's,
THE BABY IN THE ICEBOX).
Rene
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