Candy

Publication Date : 1/5/2006
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'There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar...

A love story and a novel about addiction, Candy is now a major film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish.

'There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar. . . It's like you're cruising along in a beautiful car on a pleasant country road with the breeze in your hair and the smell of eucalyptus all around you. The horizon is always up there ahead, unfolding towards you, and at first you don't notice the gradual descent, or the way the atmosphere thickens. Bit by bit the gradient gets steeper, and before you realise you have no brakes, you're going pretty fucking fast.'

Candy is a love story. It is also a novel about addiction. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, Candy charts their decline. Candy becomes a prostitute, the narrator becomes a scam artist, and smack becomes the total and only focus of their lives. But this is not just another junkie novel: Davies is a very fine writer and Candy is confronting, painful, sexy, tender and at times darkly hilarious. A remarkable novel. 

(9781741148688)

SKU 9781741148688
Barcode # 9781741148688
Brand Allen & Unwin
Artist / Author Luke Davies
Shipping Weight 0.2400kg
Shipping Width 0.010m
Shipping Height 0.195m
Shipping Length 0.150m
Unit Of Measure each
author Luke Davies
Publication Date 1/5/2006
Number of pages 336
format Paperback / softback

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