Miami Purity
Afterward by Megan Abbott
Hitting bottom for the last time, Miami exotic dancer Sherry Parlay breaks away from the business, takes a job at a dry cleaner, and begins a relationship with a man that pushes her most violent buttons.
“A hymn to American trash culture.”
— New York Times Book Review “Redneck women find a voice for the ages in Hendricks’ simple yet searing first novel [Miami Purity]”--Publishers Weekly “Miami Purity cooks white hot. . . An instant redneck idiot savant classic: so gruesome and funny and deadpan outlandish that you wind up baying at the moon like a Florida coondog.” — James Ellroy “A book of raw, primitive power with a relentless drumbeat of sexuality.” — James W. Hall, author of Under Cover of Daylight “Sex and murder, sunny places and shady people--Miami Purity is a modern noir masterpiece.” — Michael Connelly The authentic heir to James M. Cain, Vicki Hendricks is the high priestess of neo-noir. A fierce and fearless talent.” — Dennis Lehane “Shocking and supercharged, both reverent and original, this is the novel that amped up a new generation of noir writers.” — George Pelecanos, author of The Big Blowdown |
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