Word: cains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BUTTERFLY (165 pp.)-James M. Cain-Knopf...
...James Cain's previous novels (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce) gave readers more than a peek into the nature of sadism, masochism and homosexuality. His new novel, which he calls a "small morality tale," reads just like its predecessors, and claims to be about incest. In his introduction, Cain says: "I like it better than I usually like my work, and yet I have an impulse to account for it. ... The many fictions published about me recently bring me to the realization I must ... be less reticent about myself...
...script glosses over The Fall, ends with a regulation cliff-hang: Will Adam tell Cain & Abel why their parents were kicked out of the Garden of Eden? And if he does, what will the unmanageable Cain...
...Adam! You're home early.' " Adam is worried about weather, crops, and his son Cain, who is a wild spirit. Eve comforts him: "God has been kinder to us than we deserved.' "' Than we deserved ! It was your - "'Yes, I know. ... You remind me of it often enough. It's my fault that we're here now instead of in the Garden of Eden. But... we have each other, Adam.' " 'Yes, that's true. But I wish you wouldn't talk so much when I come home tired...
...enough to train an ambitious eye on the future. Wisconsin's jovial Republican Joe McCarthy, ex-Marine aviation intelligence officer, is 36. At 38, smart Air Forces Veteran William Jenner is the fair-haired boy of the Indiana G.O.P. machine. Washington's 40-year-old Republican Harry Cain, a whirlwind campaigner, had twice been elected mayor of Tacoma before going overseas as a major in the A.M.G...