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  Candy

 
Candy
Author:    Luke Davies
ISBN:    9781741148688
ISBN-10:    1741148685
Publisher:    Allen & Unwin
Date Published:    11/03/2006
Format:    Paperback Book
Pages:    336
Language:    English
RRP: $23.95
PRICE: $22.51
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Book Description:
'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.


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Review by Bec 
This is one of the most unexpected and outstanding books I have ever read.

This is an unexpected novel about two lovers, haunted by their addictions, to drugs and to each other. What will shock you most about this book is not the brutally honest picture of drugs and desire, but the very warm human aspect that infuses each of the characters.

Candy is not a book that pushes you away. It is heady, tender and hopeful.

I couldn't put it down.

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