Mildred Pierce
A Novel
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4.2 • 125 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
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.
Customer Reviews
Mildred Pierce
Loved this story of success and failure, love and heartache. Mildred, whose only fault was loving too much, is a woman with heavy burdens to bear and a lot to prove. The reader is effectively transported to 1930s America as the story is decorated with real events of the era. Highly recommend this intriguing tale and the HBO mini-series of the same name.
Good read
Well written, enjoyable novel. The setting of the depression will throw off younger readers to some extent since they have no frame of reference but otherwise a solid read. It’s fascinating and quite sad to see how Mildred is so capable and independent in business and yet so desperate for her relationship with her daughter in her personal life. Of course, this is something that is played out in real life over and over but here is exacerbated by the individuals Mildred has chosen to keep around her and how little moral fibers they each had, especially her daughter. I thought this the best of his three major books.