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The Candy Men
The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
By Southern, Nile
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-55970-604-9
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
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Reviewed on April 26, 2004
In the spirit of VH1's Behind the Music comes this revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making, breaking, remaking, pirating, filming and legal wrangling of the '60s cult phenomenon Candy. An erotic satire vaguely inspired by Voltaire's Candide and penned under the name Maxwell Kenton (the nom de plume of its ex-pat coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg), Candy was first published in 1958 by the notorious French publisher Maurice Giordias. The book was immediately banned, then reissued under the title Lollipop, banned again, then reissued again, sanitized in England and eventual...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
