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| Original Title: | Miami Purity |
| ISBN: | 0979270936 (ISBN13: 9780979270932) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Vicki Hendricks
Paperback | Pages: 170 pages Rating: 3.38 | 777 Users | 54 Reviews
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⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2Vicki Hendricks' acclaimed erotic debut novel takes it's cue from noir godfather James M. Cain and is a clear homage to his The Postman Always Rings Twice . In this one, after exotic dancer Sherri Parlay "accidentally" kills her abusive husband, she decides to start over fresh. One way to do it is to get a legit job working at the indie dry cleaners Miami Purity. Here she quickly falls for the owner's son and his "Jagger-lips," but his controlling mom stands in the way.
Hendricks' noir voice is smooth and assured, totally spot on. Her writing is one of the best examples I've seen of truly evoking the pulp paperback era but never feeling forced. There are not many things in the story that really date it, so it has a timeless feel and there are many times that I forgot that it was published in 1995. Along with the Miami humidity, the dry cleaners is a perfect setting for this steamy book and all of the illicit going-ons, a place where people take all their dirty things to get them cleaned and "purified." And Sherri is a great protagonist, unapologetic about her sexuality, strong in going after what she wants at the same time she's weak in her self-control.
Now while there are lots of great things in Miami Purity, especially the final act, much of it's beginning and middle is bogged down by monotony, where it falls into a soap opera slump, with not much going on except for Sherri pining over Payne, and the two of them having hot sex and trying to hide it from his mom. In this way, it's also similar to another Cain book, Mildred Pierce, which I had similar feelings about: well-written but weakened by it's eye-rolling soapy elements. So if you imagine James M. Cain, but with a lot more vagina and penis, you'll get an idea of what to expect from this book. And it's cool seeing how many awesome authors have blurbed lovingly about Vicki Hendricks and her work, from Dennis Lehane, to George Pelecanos, to Joe R. Lansdale, and this edition even sports a thoughtful Afterword by Megan Abbott.
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| Title | : | Miami Purity |
| Author | : | Vicki Hendricks |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 170 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2007 by Busted Flush Press, LLC (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Noir. Crime. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.38 From 777 Users | 54 ReviewsEvaluation Based On Books Miami Purity
This is a book that is not for the squeamish. It's a contemporary noir story set in Miami involving sex, murder, and lots of kink.So this book is sort of genius but also very much insane.
At the heart of the novel is more than just a tragic woman caught in a downhill spiral of booze and uncontrollable lustful desires. Sherri is a broken person who is set to find a new life beyond the stripclubs and the abusive husband she got away with killing (that's all on page one). She is out to literally cleanse and purify her life with a job in a dry cleaners called Miami Purity where she falls head over heels for the boss's son, a pure Catholic boy, but also a twisted little mama's boy who
The most disgusting book I have ever read. A well-earned 5*.
I read this as it was recommended this month by the guys on the Point Blank podcast. It's the story of Sherri, a reforming stripper who falls for the son of a dry cleaning impresario. Sounds good, right?And it is good, but, well there's no way around this - it's very, very sexy. I knew there would be, but there was even more than I thought, it's kind of a twist on the billionaire romance thing (except Payne isn't quite a billionaire), with a bit of hard-boiled crime thrown in.I liked the
Rough, ragged, and brutish, but perfectly amped-up noir. In the best tradition of Cain and Chandler, Hendricks achieves a lot with a startling economy of words - she captures that down-at-heel, low-hope world perfectly.
It's a DNF for me, and I had high hopes from the reviews and comments.
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