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The Magician's Wife

The Magician's Wife

by James M. Cain
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/01/1985
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In The Magician's Wife, Cain returns to his classic themes of lust and greed. Clay Lockwood, a business executive, falls in love with the irresistible Sally Alexis, wife of a professional magician. Their story is one of the inexorable process of "wishes coming true"-the realization of which was always, for Cain, "a terrifying concept."
ISBN:
9780887480188
9780887480188
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-01-1985
Language:
English
Publisher:
Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x18mm
Weight:
0.34kg
James M. Cain

James M. Cain achieved worldwide overnight fame when he published his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, in 1934. The classics Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce followed, reinforcing Cain's reputation as the great chronicler of crimes of passion, typically set against a working-class backdrop during the Great Depression. His books have inspired many classic movies.

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