The Postman Always Rings Twice

About the book

First published in 1934, the postman always rings twice caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex, and immediately became a bestseller. The torrid story of frank chambers, the amoral drifter, cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and nick papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of america. The author james m. Cain was born in annapolis, maryland, in 1892. Having served in the us army in world war 1, he became a journalist in baltimore and new york in the 1920s. He later worked as a screenwriter in hollywood. Cain died in 1977.