Mildred Pierce is a potboiler, but I found it compulsively
readable. There is so much going on, even if the characters
don't know what they are doing. On the quality of writing:
Cain wrote once that he loved the cliché ¢ecause his readers
did. In this novel, it shows. Comparison with Zola is very
apt. I didn't like the movie.
I think I've read all of Cain's work; the worst ones are
Love's Lovely Counterfeit (awful dialogue, hackneyed
situations) and a late effort called The Institute.
Best,
MrT
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