Candy
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Author: Luke Davies
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 300
Shortlisted, Christina Stead Prize for fiction, New South Wales Premer's Literary Awards 1999 Joint Winner, Best Young Australian Novelist, Sydney Morning Herald 1998 Shortlisted, Best Cover/Jacket Design of the Year, Australian Publishers Association Design Awards, 1997 '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. 'Somewhere the past changed. I don't want it. I don't want the present. There is no conceivable future. There is only the relentlessness of coping punctuated by naked singularities of bliss. But in the middle of such moments contentment is absolute: there is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love. We carry the ocean within us and with us wherever we go.'
Author: Luke Davies
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 300
Shortlisted, Christina Stead Prize for fiction, New South Wales Premer's Literary Awards 1999 Joint Winner, Best Young Australian Novelist, Sydney Morning Herald 1998 Shortlisted, Best Cover/Jacket Design of the Year, Australian Publishers Association Design Awards, 1997 '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. 'Somewhere the past changed. I don't want it. I don't want the present. There is no conceivable future. There is only the relentlessness of coping punctuated by naked singularities of bliss. But in the middle of such moments contentment is absolute: there is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love. We carry the ocean within us and with us wherever we go.'
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Luke Davies
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 300
Shortlisted, Christina Stead Prize for fiction, New South Wales Premer's Literary Awards 1999 Joint Winner, Best Young Australian Novelist, Sydney Morning Herald 1998 Shortlisted, Best Cover/Jacket Design of the Year, Australian Publishers Association Design Awards, 1997 '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. 'Somewhere the past changed. I don't want it. I don't want the present. There is no conceivable future. There is only the relentlessness of coping punctuated by naked singularities of bliss. But in the middle of such moments contentment is absolute: there is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love. We carry the ocean within us and with us wherever we go.'
Author: Luke Davies
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 300
Shortlisted, Christina Stead Prize for fiction, New South Wales Premer's Literary Awards 1999 Joint Winner, Best Young Australian Novelist, Sydney Morning Herald 1998 Shortlisted, Best Cover/Jacket Design of the Year, Australian Publishers Association Design Awards, 1997 '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. 'Somewhere the past changed. I don't want it. I don't want the present. There is no conceivable future. There is only the relentlessness of coping punctuated by naked singularities of bliss. But in the middle of such moments contentment is absolute: there is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love. We carry the ocean within us and with us wherever we go.'
Candy