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Dewey Decimal Number: 818'.52 EAN: 9782070434428 ISBN: 2070434427 Label: Gallimard Manufacturer: Gallimard Number Of Pages: 182 Publication Date: September 01, 1982 Publisher: Gallimard Studio: Gallimard Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Mountain passionsJess Tyler lives alone in a mountain shack until a young woman shows up at his door one day. He is powerfully attracted to her, even when he finds out that she is his long-lost daughter. This is only the first twist in a densely plotted novella that plays out among the poverty-stricken mountain people of West Virginia. James M. Cain takes his characters to some very dark places, hurling them from the heights of joy to the blackest pits of despair. What a ride! Rating: - Hard, stark storyCain portrays the dark sides of his characters so vividly that you come away with the queasy feeling that such people might actually exist. You might also come away feeling grateful that you are who you are, and not them. Jess Tyler lives alone, up at the edge of a worked-out coal mine. He has a farm plot and a few animals, but that's about it. He had another life once, or maybe more than one, but that's behind him. Then, one day, a part of that past stands in front of him. It's a young ... Read More Rating:  - incest in rural West Virginia - not handled well by Cain'Butterfly' is the latest of several James M. Cain novels I've read. Unfortunately it seems that beyond his best known works ('The Postman Always Rings Twice', 'Mildred Pierce', 'Double Indemnity') he has pumped out a number of mediocre novels, including 'Butterfly'. 'Butterfly' is a novel on incest in a coal mining community in rural West Virginia during the 1930s. No doubt the story was shocking when first written (in 1946) but now the material seems fairly lame. The essence of older ... Read More Rating: - Cain's Second Best BookYou must read this book for the last sentence. It is the best ever written. Don't skip ahead, just take the time, read it and get to that beautiful, perfect sentence. You won't be diasapointed. Rating: - A man who falls in love with his own daughter.This story is vey interesting and unbelievable. It's about a man name Jess who was separated from his own daughter when she was just a baby. After many years have past, they both met each other by his house having a conversation. Jess fell in love with her without knowing that she's his own daughter, and goes for her. I rate this boo an "8" because of it's uncommon story that can never be accepted in our society. 
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