
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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Mycket, mycket bra. Jag vet knappt vart jag ska ta vägen nu när den är slut, har fortfarande lite ångest efter att ha hetsläst mig igenom sista tredjedelen. Dessa mor -och dotterrelationer, varför blir de gärna så förgiftade? Det var omtumlande läsning.