![]() ![]() "Mildred Pierce is the odd woman out in this gallery of moral ineptitude.It is a bath in sensation." - Robert van Gelder, The New York Times Book Review (.) That this is a novel that, once begun, will almost surely be read to the end is understandable, for it has in it the deep, slow pull of the ancient ooze where worms and serpents crawled it reflects no codes, no restrictions, and none but the primordial necessities. ![]() "If there are more vicious quarrels in print than those in which these characters indulge their sadism I have not seen them.Mildred Pierce was made into a TV series in 2011, directed by Todd Haynes and starring Kate Winslet and Evan Rachel Woodī : triumphs and tribulations, and too much melodrama.Mildred Pierce was made into a film in 1945, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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