Summary
SERENADE is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference.
John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana.
Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780220208 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780220200 |
| Author: | James M. Cain |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 201g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 17mm |
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‘the story builds to a stunning and complex climax … how brilliant that a new generation has the chance to discover this compelling writer.’
Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people * SATURDAY REVIEW *
It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain’s novels] helped to define the genre known as film noir * NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS *
the story builds to a stunning and complex climax … how brilliant that a new generation has the chance to discover this compelling writer. – Joanna Hines * GUARDIAN *
About The Author
James M. Cain
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 1920’s. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.
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