# Serenade

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- Book: [Serenade](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-cain/serenade) ([Serenade.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-cain/serenade.md))
- Authors: [James M. Cain](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-cain)
- Publisher: W N
- ISBN: 978-17-8022-020-8
- Published: 2011-06-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEW Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences.