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Nick is a really nice guy, but Cora's not in love with him: "I hate that Greek", she tells Frank. Nick takes a liking to Frank, and he needs help and offers him a job.įrank isn't the kind to settle down anywhere, but Nick is a nice guy - and then there's Cora:Įxcept for the shape, she really wasn't any raving beauty, but she had a sulky look to her, and her lips stuck out in a way that made me want to mash them in for her. Nick owns Twin Oaks Tavern - "nothing but a roadside sandwich joint, like a million others in California". It is narrated by Frank Chambers, a drifter who has been locked up in quite a few states already when he winds up at Nick Papadakis'. The Postman always Rings Twice is a fast, sultry little novel. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole.

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"Mr Cain overcomes the considerable technical difficulties of making this man the mouthpiece of a connected story, and he does it without ever allowing him a comment, which would be beyond his underdeveloped intelligence." - E.E.Mavrogordato, Times Literary Supplement.

Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy at the end." - Time

The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. "Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound.He has excorcised all the inhibitions there is a minimum of reason, of complexity, of what we commonly call civilization, between an impulse and its gratification." - Harold Strauss, The New York Times Book Review "His story is a third as long as most novels, and its success is due entirely to one quality: Cain can get down to primary impulses of greed and sex in fewer words than any writer we know of.The Postman always Rings Twice has been filmed twice: in 1946, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield, and in 1981, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica LangeĪ- : fast, dark novella with some nice twists.Il postino suona sempre due volte - ItaliaĮl cartero siempre llama dos veces - España Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt - Deutschland Le Facteur sonne toujours deux fois - France General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

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