You just know that things are going to go south with Effie and Henry's marriage but how it does in so many ways and how Effie finds her strength and power is just so well done and keeps you whipping through those pages as fast as you can. Full of eroticism, arousal, danger, tensions of every kind imaginable, this is a powerful debut by a male author who pulls off the sex so well and with such clarity.
"I read CAPE MAY all day yesterday and didn't want it to end. 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 a novel 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. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. Cape May does something better than critique or satirize: It seduces."Ī mesmerizing debut novel 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. A dozy, luxurious sense of enchantment comes over the story, until the rude awakening at its finale.
"Henry and Effie’s honeymoon is meant to be their introduction to the pleasures of the body, but in the company of Clara and her promiscuous cohort they lose all track of boundaries.
Cheek’s sensual first novel leaves you wanting more.” Then they meet Clara and Max, hard-partying lovers who dazzle the innocent pair until they’ve lost more than their virginity. “Inside this mesmerizing tale of sexual desire and discovery, naive newlyweds Henry and Effie are honeymooning in Cape May, N.J., in 1957, tentatively navigating intimacy.
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