![]() ![]() The 1950s setting, the pellucid prose, and the propulsive plot make this very steamy debut novel about morality and desire feel like a classic." It soon reveals itself as a swirling vortex of psychological suspense with insights about marriage that recall writers like Margot Livesey and Alice Munro. ![]() "Deceptively relaxed and simple at first, the novel seems to be an easygoing trip down Memory Lane. The book has superb prose, acute psychological insights, and a riveting narrative though it's impossible to put down once you've started, to call it a "summer read" is dismissive of Cheek's carefully wrought artfulness." "Chip Cheek's Cape May is a debut novel about a young, virginal Southern couple on their off-season honeymoon in 1957 to the titular seaside community in New Jersey, where they come under the spell of a sophisticated older couple. ![]()
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