The Postman Always Rings Twice in Bloomington, MN

The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th
century
—that was
banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, and acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for
The Stranger
. The basis for the acclaimed 1946 film.
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
First published in 1934,
The Postman Always Rings Twice
is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for
.