The Outer Cape Lib/E (Audiobook)

from froxgirl

With a lovely Joel Meyerowitz Cape Cod porch cover, this novel deceptively hints of a serenity that is not achieved until the very end. It's the story of brutality passed from fathers to sons in a family of builders on the Cape. Two sons are raised by a morally corrupt father and a mother who see...

from Dannadee

A Library Thing win. This book was just ok for me. A depressing tale of a dysfunctional family living on a beautiful part of the country. Irene an artist, sacrifices her art in order to raise 2 boys. Robert a real estate agent who is always looking for a way to make it big, which eventually lands...

from Felliot

I received an advanced reader's copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. In the short story collection "We've Already Gone This Far", Patrick Dacey explored what happens when an entire town wakes up from the American Dream to a reality they did not expect and were not prepared to live ...

from Ed_Gosney

Not unlike Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides, The Outer Cape by Patrick Dacey takes an emotional toll on the reader. In order to do this, we have to feel something for at least one of the characters, and this, perhaps is the hardest part in reading it. These are not the sort of people most of us w...

from annwelton

First, thank you to LibraryThing/Holt Publishers for an early copy of this novel for my enjoyment. I truly liked the era (60's - 70's) of the early part of the story, and love Cape Cod anytime, but I found it hard to become attached to the characters, especially Irene (mother, wife, artist). The ...