![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The empty beach town becomes their 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 irrevocable consequences.Įrotic and moving, this is an audiobook about marriage, love, and sexuality, and the lifelong repercussions that meeting a group of debauched cosmopolitans has on a new marriage. 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. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. ![]() Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. Set in the 1950s, theres lots of gin, sea-sand, drunken sailors and nostalgia and its a taut, tense, sexy debut. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. Chip Cheeks Cape May follows an innocent honeymoon couple as they destroy their marriage before its even begun. A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social a. A mesmerizing debut by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel South corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites. Read 1,016 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. ![]()
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