- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Minerva; New edition edition (27 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749395605
- ISBN-13: 978-0749395605
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 728,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sherry Parlay has lived in Miami for two years but seen nothing except the insides of bars. When she gets a job at a dry cleaners she meets Payne, the bosses son, who sounds legit when he says he loves her, but soon finds a way to tap her most violent and cold-blooded impulses.
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Vicki Hendricks lives in Miami, Florida, where she teaches English and creative writing. A fan of dangerous sports, she took up sky-diving to research Sky Blues and has since completed 550 skydives. She also learned to dogsled in Finland and has been birding in the jungles of Costa Rica.
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The dark side of my mind took control on one of those slippery-hot Miami nights about a year ago, the start of my unraveling, my spin into psychosis and murder. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read a short review of Hendricks' novel, and was enthralled to find that it was a modern crime novel written by, and from the perspective of, a woman. Hendricks certainly has the power to shock, and her down-and-dirty, lazy-drawl style of narrative fits the subject matter perfectly, while the facade of the bright and breezy, modern Miami setting serves well to contrast. Also, the bumping and grinding of the dry-cleaning shop where much of the action takes place, as well as its steamy atmosphere, provide an erotic counterfoil to the main story. Try to hide your smile the next time you want into your dry-cleaner's.
Format:Kindle Edition
Ms. Hendricks spins traditional noir in circles and drops it on it's head. This is sexy, black humored crime fiction at its best, with a hot as Hades female lead. Solid writing, tight plotting, loads of steamy sex and sudden violence. A great piece of work.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Vile is a genre - maybe the only one
23 Nov 1999
Format:Paperback
I read Miami Purity when it first came out and have been waiting patiently for Hendricks' next book. I'm waiting for Iguana Love to arrive in my mailbox now.
Writers tell us lies about life because publishers pay them to do so. If you run a search on my name here, you'll see why I think that. Every once in a while, quite possibly by mistake, the filter fails and somebody honest slips through. We've got Vicki Hendricks among us now, and I hope she lasts a good long while and writes many more books like this one.
This is a book that lets you see into a woman's head the way some rare male writers occasionally let you see into the heads of men, without wallpapering the set with fairy tales. The woman in the story will scare you, and she should.
Ms. Hendricks, if you read this: Well done!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Pure White Trash
20 April 2006
Format:Paperback
This is the poet of my peeps.
Miami Purity begins with a white trash Sherri/Cherry sitting around with her boyfriend/husband Hank listening to country music and he smacks her. She smacks him back with the boom box. He dies. Then it gets good. Real good.
I kept thinking about when I was a kid, how we'd mark the good parts of the book. The whole novel is the good parts.
Seriously, Hendricks masters the voice and perspective of an unreliable narrator, a white trash girl moving into her middle years and trying desperately to change herself into something for which she has no role model--a middle class wife. Unfortunately, her quest to transform herself is doomed by associations that are more perverse and malicous than the bikers and dope addicts and horn dogs that populated her previous "dance career."
This is a great novel, a brilliant new perspective, on life and death as it actually happens all around us.
William Crosby
Cleveland
Miami Purity begins with a white trash Sherri/Cherry sitting around with her boyfriend/husband Hank listening to country music and he smacks her. She smacks him back with the boom box. He dies. Then it gets good. Real good.
I kept thinking about when I was a kid, how we'd mark the good parts of the book. The whole novel is the good parts.
Seriously, Hendricks masters the voice and perspective of an unreliable narrator, a white trash girl moving into her middle years and trying desperately to change herself into something for which she has no role model--a middle class wife. Unfortunately, her quest to transform herself is doomed by associations that are more perverse and malicous than the bikers and dope addicts and horn dogs that populated her previous "dance career."
This is a great novel, a brilliant new perspective, on life and death as it actually happens all around us.
William Crosby
Cleveland
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Brilliant
20 Sep 2003
Format:Paperback
Wow. I found this author by reading her great short story ("Stormy, Mon Amour") in the Tart Noir collection, and I'm glad I did. Sherise Parlay is oversexed white trash with a tendency to show off her chest, among other things. Trying to clean up her life, she takes a job at a dry-cleaner's and plans to score the seemingly straight-laced manager's son. But Payne Mahoney is a very disturbing man, and Sherri's changing, too. Sure to stick in your head, this will change the way you think about dry-cleaning. (A+)
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