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Cape May Paperback – 30 April 2019

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Print length

256 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Celadon Books
Publication date

30 April 2019
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15.4 x 2.2 x 23.3 cm
ISBN-10

1250231108
ISBN-13

978-1250231109
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Celadon Books (30 April 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250231108
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250231109
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.4 x 2.2 x 23.3 cm

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CAPE MAY is Chip Cheek’s first novel. His 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 El Segundo, California, with his wife and daughter.

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what a heap of thrash

Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2019

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Thrash

Reviewed in Australia on 9 May 2019

Yes, that’s really the author’s name. He’s from Georgia originally, and did his MFA in Boston (Emerson College) rather than New York, which makes a nice change. He now lives in LA., which doesn’t.
Debut novel about a newly married young couple (Henry’s 20, Effie’s 18) from rural Georgia. She’s a town girl, he’s a farm boy but they’ve known each other since elementary school.
It’s late September 1957. H and E take an 18-hour train trip to their honeymoon at a beachside town in New Jersey. E has fond childhood memories of the house they’re staying in, which belonged to Effie’s aunt now deceased.
But she hadn’t thought it though. The season’s over, it’s getting cool, and the town’s almost deserted, many houses locked up for the winter. Oh well, they’re newlyweds and virgins so they have stuff to keep themselves occupied.
H and E quickly get the idea and she decides she wants to go home early because there’s, like, nothing else to do. All of a sudden, people appear in a big place down the street, lots of people, young people, it’s a party.
Pretty soon H and E discover cigarettes, gin, champagne, extramarital affairs, duplicity, you know the drill. A downmarket, slightly grubbier version of The Great Gatsby thirty years on follows.
The sex is not pornographic but there’s plenty of it, even more grog. H and E weather the storm and go back home together, but not as better people.
The book starts well, the depiction of 1950s mores in particular. Sadly, it goes downhill from there, albeit slowly until the final chapter: a rapid-fire precis of their subsequent life together that feels tacked on and artificial. (Hint: What you learn in Cape May doesn’t stay in Cape May.)

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a steamy, trashy, fun ride (all puns intended), but nothing more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2020

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Cape May really does take you into its own little world of endless summer and sex, which is fun and a real trip! However I find it hard to believe why the Effie ever married her beau in the first place??? she seems to find him either boring or irritating, or stupid from page 1. They were both devoid of any personality or inner life which is the biggest let down of this work. I was so shocked to read all the events that happened in this book and to be so blind about how either character was feeling about them. More insight into the couples inner feelings would have produced a work that was not only fun and unputdownable but also an interesting view of the nature of relationships.

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Doesn’t live up to the hype of being the new ‘Gatsby’.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2019

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Ignore all the hyperbole about this being the new ‘Gatsby’. Yes it has a sense of time and place. Yes it is about ‘decadence’. But this is a slight, oversexualised novel with a decent exploration of the micro, but in the latter part of the book a flimsy exploration of the macro. I believed the hype, but Fitzgerald it is not.

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Fully-fledged escapism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2020

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For a book often compared to The Great Gatsby (of which I wasn’t a fan!), I fell in love with this story. Flawed characters but believable, this book transports you to another era which you find yourself fully immersed in. Brilliant debut novel.

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des liaisons très dangereuses

Reviewed in France on 27 July 2019

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Chronique Nathalie Bullat
Roman chaud, brûlant ! et je ne parle pas de canicule mais de "liaisons dangereuses" in USA. Une réflexion sur le mariage, le devoir et la fidélité. Un couple de jeunes mariés passe son voyage de noces à CAP MAY, ville côtière du New-Jersey. En octobre, c'est un peu triste. Ils arrivent du fin fond de leur campagne Géorgienne, ils sont vierges - et oui cela existait en 1957 !! - plutôt religieux , et surtout ils s'ennuient ensemble. Mais c'est sans compter sur leurs voisins d'en face, riches new-yorkais excentriques, oisifs, débauchés. Le gin et le whisky coulent à flot au bord de leur piscine lors des douces soirées de ce début d'automne.

Un peu intimidé au début le jeune couple est happé par l'ambiance chaleureuse, à la fois attiré et choqué par le libertinage des invités, quelques hippies, et hommes d' affaires, tous aux moeurs très libres. Ils découvrent un univers si différent du leur, où tous les plaisirs sont permis. On y joue des jeux dangereux.
Les conversations sont superficielles , ils boivent beaucoup, écoutent du jazz . leur jeu favori est d'explorer les maisons voisines fermées hors saison. Ils semblent ne pas avoir de limites. Certes il y a un côté Fitzgerald dans l'atmosphère de luxe et de débauche. Mais les personnages ne sont pas aussi fouillés, aucun n'a de vraie passion , aucun n'est vraiment amoureux, en dehors de la jeune Alma.
L'auteur souligne le contraste entre deux mondes, entre rigueur et désordre. C'est pourquoi pour nos deux jeunes gens cette "parenthèse" ne peut être qu'éphémère. Le réveil sera douloureux!

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Deux mondes par le petit bout de la lorgnettes

Reviewed in France on 22 June 2019

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Le Roman est présente comme une histoire de famille typique des USA Si l’on y Tribe certains traits de Cara tête et d ambiance, le roman avec un faux suspense est finalement assez à banAl pour être celui d’une auteure unanimement saluée ExistNte au début l intrigue se languit dès le milieu du livre et la fin convenue.
A fascination de la classe moyenne et religieuse pour un monde plus riche et libéré thème central ne convainc pas tant il y a de lieux communs

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