Sidney Williams's Blog - Posts Tagged "audio"
What's on the iPod - Miami Purity - Feminine Noir
I'm not sure how I missed Vicki Hendricks' dark, noirish Miami Purity (1995), often dubbed a feminine The Postman Always Rings twice, but I was happy to discover the audiobook recently. That's due to a mention in a Salon article about what to read after Gillian Flynn's brilliant Gone Girl.
Miami is brilliant also, a steamy--in more ways than one--and grim crime excursion told by the protagonist, Sherri Parlay. She's a former stripper who's maintained a vestige of innocence in spite of her rough thirty-six years and a deceased husband. He's deceased because she clipped him with a boom box while he was being abusive.
After her husband's death and some suspicion about it by the cops, Sherri lands a job in a Miami cleaner called Miami Purity. She's hired by the owner, Brenda Mahoney. More
Miami is brilliant also, a steamy--in more ways than one--and grim crime excursion told by the protagonist, Sherri Parlay. She's a former stripper who's maintained a vestige of innocence in spite of her rough thirty-six years and a deceased husband. He's deceased because she clipped him with a boom box while he was being abusive.
After her husband's death and some suspicion about it by the cops, Sherri lands a job in a Miami cleaner called Miami Purity. She's hired by the owner, Brenda Mahoney. More
