5/24/2023 0 Comments Sunburn novel![]() ![]() ![]() The High-Ho, the Valley View, Main Street - it's like this whole town was put together from some other town's leftovers. Polly is staying in a motel "named the Valley View, although there's no valley and no view. Why Adam is there is not immediately apparent. 'What kind of an a-h- are you?'?"įor Polly, Belleville is a way station to gather herself and make a plan for escaping her marriage for good. "?'I don't know,' she says, not looking at him. "He looks at his own drink and says out loud, as if to himself: 'What kind of an a-h- orders red wine in a tavern in Belleville, Delaware?' To see the complete list of this books read-alikes, you need to be a member. We have 4 read-alikes for Sunburn, but non-members are limited to two results. As it opens, a sexy redhead named Polly has left her husband, Gregg, and their 3-year-old daughter in the middle of a beach vacation and landed in a frayed little town inland.Īdam, "a Ken doll kind of guy, if Ken had a great year-round tan," spots her sitting on a barstool, the title's sunburn across her shoulders all but glowing in the dark. A novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. ![]() Sunburn is set in 1995, but it feels as if it has slipped halfway into the 1930s of Cain's books. It's an explicit salute to Cain - at one point one of its main characters takes certain inspiration from the classic film versions of Postman and Indemnity - and a more than worthy one. It's slimmer and quicker, pared down but equipped with more twists than a bag of snakes. ![]()
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