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Mildred Pierce
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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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- ISBN-13: 9780679723219
- ISBN-10: 0679723218
- Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Publish Date: May 1989
- Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.24 x 0.66 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.52 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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