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Mildred Pierce

James M. Cain
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.

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    Аноним6 января 2016 г.

    Mildred sat quite still, and when she heard Veda drive off she was consumed by a fury so cold that it almost seemed as though she felt nothing at all. It didn't occur to her that she was acting less like a mother than like a lover who had unexpectedly discovered an act of faithlessness, and avenged it.

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    Аноним6 января 2016 г.

    She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

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    Аноним6 января 2016 г.

    The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

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