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CAPE MAY
A novel about marriage, love and sexuality, CAPE MAY explores what happens to a young Southern couple when they meet a group of debauched cosmopolitans on their honeymoon, and the repercussions that meeting has on the rest of their marriage.
It's 1957, and Henry and Effie, newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It's October, though, and the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and alone, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama and eventually upend their marriage. There's Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away; Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara's lover; and Alma, Max's aloof and mysterious half-sister, to whom Henry is irresistibly drawn. The empty town becomes the characters' playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with consequences that reverberate through the rest of their lives.
In CAPE MAY, Cheek mingles a lyric eroticism reminiscent of James Salter's A SPORT AND A PASTIME with themes similar to Susan Minot's EVENINGfiltered through a cool, at times humorous, sensibility that may remind readers of Ian McEwan or Colm Toibin.
Chip Cheek's stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Washington Square, and other journals and anthologies. He has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as an Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and baby daughter.
TAGE IN CAPE MAY
Deutsch von Bernhard Robben
[HC Blessing 05/19]
It's 1957, and Henry and Effie, newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It's October, though, and the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and alone, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama and eventually upend their marriage. There's Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away; Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara's lover; and Alma, Max's aloof and mysterious half-sister, to whom Henry is irresistibly drawn. The empty town becomes the characters' playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with consequences that reverberate through the rest of their lives.
In CAPE MAY, Cheek mingles a lyric eroticism reminiscent of James Salter's A SPORT AND A PASTIME with themes similar to Susan Minot's EVENINGfiltered through a cool, at times humorous, sensibility that may remind readers of Ian McEwan or Colm Toibin.
Chip Cheek's stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Washington Square, and other journals and anthologies. He has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as an Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and baby daughter.
TAGE IN CAPE MAY
Deutsch von Bernhard Robben
[HC Blessing 05/19]
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