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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and to claw her way out of poverty. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.
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"[Mildred Pierce] take[s] on new life under Williams' direction…[the story] flourishes under her steady, patient, ever-so-slightly melancholic gaze. Williams' reading…amplifies our sense of Cain's heroine as an abandoned woman who finds her own way, on her own terms."
Publishers Weekly
"A novel that, once begun, will almost surely be read to the end…it reflects no codes, no restrictions, and none but the primordial necessities. It is a bath in sensation."
New York Times Book Review