Serenade
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Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... Serenade ISBN:0404615023 Author:Cain, James M. Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf Release Date:1937 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Good Sku: 2353135 Notes: First edition, in one of three jacket states released simultaneously (each used the same W.A. Dwiggins design in different color combinations). Good in very good jacket. Light stain on rear board and top binding edge of pages (does not show on interior margins), jacket lightly rubbed and toned with minimal loss from corners. 1937 Hard Cover. 314 pp. Inspiration for film starring Ann Sheridan. "Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 - October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labelling, he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the roman noir. Several of his crime novels inspired highly successful movies. Cain was born into an Irish Catholic family in
- Publisher: AMS Press, Incorporated
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780404615024
- Condition: Good
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