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Chargement... Cloud Ninepar James M. Cain
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:One man sells his soul to save an innocentâ??who turns out not to be so innocent after all Graham meets Sonya outside of his real estate office. She is sixteen, beautiful, and showing just the right amount of leg. He's ruminating on those legs when she drops the bombshellâ??she's there because Graham's brother, Burl, raped her, leaving her frightened, pregnant, and very much alone. She was spending the night with a friend when two boys and a case of beer turned a quiet evening into a hellish orgy. All she wants is the $1,111 it will cost to spend the next few months in a convalescent home, then give the baby up for adoption, but Burl won't give her the money. Sonya's vengeful father, meanwhile, wants far more money from Burl, to pay for harming his daughter. Graham offers Sonya a better choice: He'll marry her so that she can get a legal abortion. This moment of twisted generosity will change his life foreverâ??but he has no idea that, as he asks for Sonya's hand, he is signing away Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The story line involves sex, rape, murder (attempted and actual), and forbidden liasons, against a backdrop of money, power, and family secrets. In the late 1960s (when it was written), Cain could be far more daring than back in his heyday two decades earlier. However, even in a charitable assessment, the action and dialogue fall flat (and at times, are excruciating to read). C'est la vie.
In an extended afterward, Cain's biographer Roy Hoopes puts Cloud Nine into the historical perspective of the author's life and career. As Hoopes states it, "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." ( )