JAMES M. CAIN knocks us readers down. His books like 'Postman Always Rings Twice' and 'Double Indemnity' are really hard-boiled and tough-guy in tone. His Latino influences are shrewd. This guy from Maryland is an incredible wordsmith as the intellectuals say.
I feel there is a reverberating tone of somewhat Asian realism in the fiery prose works of men like Cain. His works remind one of latter-day Asian film men like Takashi Kitano. James Cain develops fascinating female characterizations. His works exemplify the rugged life, beautifully.
Like Hammett and Chandler, Cain has a stream of consciousness that is intellectually mature and literally smoking with gigantic amounts of visceral passion.
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