Cloud Nine
- Автор: Кейн Джеймс Маллахэн
- Год: 1984
- Язык: английский
- Год: Mysterious Press
- ISBN: 978-0-89296-079-8
- Жанр: Триллеры
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When blonde, 16-year-old, Sonya Lang confronts real-estate man Graham Kirby with the fact that she’s pregnant by his sleazy half-brother Burwell, that’s bad. When it turns out that her condition is the result of a particularly degrading rape, that’s worse. As her father says, “What wipes out that stain is blood.” This is quintessential James M. Cain, giving us characters whose emotional intensity is unlimited. Suspenseful, intricately plotted, CLOUD NINE is an important addition to contemporary American literature.
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No one knew better than James M. Cain that he was never able to find the same spark in the suburbs of Washington and Baltimore that he found in the suburbs of Los Angeles. But the important thing is that he never stopped trying. He did not sit around waiting for the clock to strike. And he thought he had given Cloud Nine “the best lick I had,” as he wrote his agent, and that “it held on suspense and delivered a nice wallop.”
Frankly, the wallop at the end is something less than pure Cain. But the suspense does hold, and the prose reads well, like it was written by a 75-year-old James M. Cain — which it was.
As he said to one critic of his last novels: “I have to write as I write, I can’t young it up.”
Roy Hoopes
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