THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS

Book ID/图书代码： 06000011B48397

English Summary/英文概要： NY Times的介紹: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/rediscovered-novel-by-mildred-pierce-author-will-be-released/?partner=rss&emc=rss

2012 would be a notable year for crime fiction if this were the only book released. After all, not many years bring us new works from all-time noir great James M Cain. While it may not be Cain’s best work, The Cocktail Waitress deserves special mention. The cocktail waitress in question is Joan Medford. She’s recently widowed and trying to survive. As in any number of Cain novels, Joan Medford is a desperate woman. Unlike most Cain novels, however, The Cocktail Waitress is narrated by the desperate Medford. She attracts several ill-fated lovers, and protests her innocence repeatedly. All her excuses are plausible, yet death is inevitable in her wake. We want to believe Joan, but the doubts are never put to rest. Ever the cagey master, Cain refuses to tells us if we’re dealing with a spectacularly unfortunate woman, or his most chilling femme fatale yet.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/rediscovered-novel-by-mildred-pierce-author-will-be-released/?partner=rss&emc=rss 纽约时代周刊的介绍：

如果只有这一本书出版的话，2012年可能是推理小说显著的一年。毕竟，时隔不太久黑色大师詹姆斯凯恩就带给了我们他的新作。也行这本不一定是凯恩最好的作品，但它也值得一提。这位文中的鸡尾酒女招待Joan Medford，刚成了寡妇需要养活自己，在所有凯恩书中的角色中她是最绝望的一位，拥有好几个不幸的情人，她和清白愈来愈远，也许她有理由，但死亡还是不可避免的来了，我们想相信Joan，但是怀疑永无止息，大师凯恩没有透露，我们面对的是一个非常不幸的女子或是他笔下最无情的美女•••(LNL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 詹姆斯•凯恩 James Mallahan Cain（1892—1977）如今被公美国小说中的硬派大师之一。他出生于巴尔的摩，是华盛顿学院院长之子，曾做过巴尔的摩报界的记者，第一次世界大战期间服役于美国远征军，为第七十九师团的报纸《Cross of Lorraine》写作。退役后，凯恩受聘于安纳波利斯的圣约翰学院。任新闻学教授，之后又效力于H．L．门肯主编的《美国信使》。后来，他还为沃尔特•李普曼主办的《纽约世界报》写过评论，并一度担任《纽约人》的总编辑。最后，他去了好莱坞，做了一名电影剧本作者。凯恩的第一部小说《邮差总敲两次门》于1934年他42岁的时候出版，一版就引起了轰动，又因被认为“有伤风化”而在波士顿受到指控。诺贝尔文学奖得主法国文学大师阿尔贝•加缪声称他的小说《局外人》便是受该书的启发创作出来的，这本书1936年被搬上舞台，1946 年和 1981年被拍成电影。讲述了一位年轻的漂泊者和已婚妇女密谋杀掉其丈夫以骗取保险金的故事。《邮差总敲两次门》是经典的侦探故事和黑色电影。凯恩的其他两本书，1941年的《轻轻刺穿》和《加倍赔偿》也被拍成黑色电影。1974年詹姆斯•凯恩被美国推理作家协会授予大师奖，凯恩一共出版了18部作品，去世前正致力于自传的写作。

James Mallahan Cain (1892 - 1977) was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore, the son of the president of Washington College, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for The Cross of Lorraine, the newspaper of the 79th Division. He returned from the war to embark on a literay career that included a professorship at St. John’s College in Annapolis and a stint at The New Yorker as managing editor before he went to Hollywood as a script writer. Cain’s famous first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, was published in 1934 when he was forty-two, and became an instant sensation. It was tried for obscenity in Boston and was said by Albert Camus to have inspired his own book, The Stranger. The infamous novel was staged in 1936, and filmed in 1946 and 1981. The story of a young hobo who has an affair with a married woman and plots with her to murder her husband and collect his insurance, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a benchmark of classic crime fiction and film noir. Two of Cain’s other novels, Mildred Pierce (1941) and Double Indemnity (1943), were also made into film noir classics. In 1974, James M. Cain was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Cain published eighteen books in all and was working on his autobiography at the time of his death.

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