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Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction |  | Author: Luke Davies
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 96058
Media: Paperback
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0345423879
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780345423870
ASIN: 0345423879
Publication Date: June 16, 1998
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"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ."He met Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. Gorgeous, sexy, free-spirited Candy. They fell in love fast, lots of laughter and lust, the days melting warmly into each other. He never planned to give her a habit. But she wanted a taste. And wasn't love, after all, about sharing lives? Candy had a bit of money and in the beginning, everything was beautiful. Heady, heroin-hazed days, the world open and inviting. But when the money ran out, the craving remained, and the days ceased their luxurious stretch. But there was still love. Only now, it was a threesome. Heroin had its own demands, its own timetable, and thoughts of nabbing the next fix hurled them into each day. Then, when desperation sets in, Candy will stop at nothing to secure a blast, as she and her lover become hostage to the nightmarish world of addiction. Painful, sexy, tender, and charged with dark humor, Candy provocatively charts the daily rituals of two lovers maintaining a long-term junk habit. Told in stunningly vivid prose and set against the backdrop of suburban and urban Australia, Candy is both an electrifying and frightening glimpse of contemporary life and love.
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 drug illusion May 8, 2010
Kelly Soriano (Talent, OR, US)
This fantastic story takes you on a journey of what life on drugs is day to day. It brings you into the body and mind of candy and drug users and the illutioned life they all live. Must read! Another great story you might like Not All Prisons Have Bars
 it isnt for me December 2, 2009
Brittany Pawlicki
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book just didnt grab my attention it took me forever to read it becuase i was so uninterested.Ive read a few other books that dealt with drugs and love and this is the only one that bored me.One of the main things that bored me was the word choice ,in parts of the books were i was supposed to be excited i wasn't and it was because of the way things were written.
davies is a poetic genius May 27, 2009
candy girl (nowhere, United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
it's almost difficult for me to put into words how incredibly beautiful and tragic this novel is. there is no book out there.. no movie.. that demonstrates so accurately the mind and life of a heroin addict. there were times i felt davies was telling my story, that he had reached into my mind and memories and put them on paper. i've read this novel so many times now and i still continue to because there is a peace in knowing you are not alone with your experiences. please do not judge the actions of a junkie unless you have lived in their shoes. the book, even in it's genius, cannot fully convey what it is really and truly like. the descriptions are perfection but as davies explains, unless you are in the withdrawals it's quite easy to forget it's pain.. i laughed out loud numerous times. felt deeply connected. reminisced and ultimately was grateful to no longer be in that hopeless, hellish and yet deeply beautiful place. best book ever.
A Lovely Addiction January 24, 2009
Alex (Virginia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I took time out of my regular round of reading to read this novel after watching the movie staring Heath Ledger.
Normally the book is far better than the movie, but not this time. This time the movie and the book, for me, are just as good as each other. There are changes from the book to the movie and there are some things that the movie left out that the book had in there, but the jump from the pages to the screen was a good one.
I loved this fom start to finish. Davies makes you feel what Dan and Candy are feeling without having you actually start on heroin yourself. This book doesn't glamourize the drug, it makes it real. But the book isn't just about drug addiction it's about a love addiction between two people who just happen to be hooked on heroin.
You can't help but want to root for them as they try numerous times to quit, but can't. You want to scream all the time you can do it, but you know it doesn't happen. The ending is very well thought out and moving.
This is a book that should be on the shelves everywhere.
Tedious... November 22, 2008
Honest
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
...at best.
I'm an avid reader and enjoyed this to a point. As a snapshop into the depravity of the addicted mind this was a decent read.
The language is concise and the author well informed.
I just found the story very bleak and uninteresting once the doomed pair relapse for the first time.
As a recovering addict of various intoxicants I did not feel compelled to get through what reads like a parallel rehashing of my own life experiences.
I would recommend this to anyone that thinks drugs are a fun ride without consequences.
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