{"product_id":"candy-book-w-clements-9780850490008","title":"Candy","description":"Originally banned in Paris and published by the Olympia Press under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton, \u003ci\u003eCandy\u003c\/i\u003e is the scandalous 1958 novel cowritten by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, now reissued with an introduction by B. J. Novak. \u003ci\u003eCandy\u003c\/i\u003e was greeted in America by white-hot controversy, becoming a bestseller and helping to cement Southern's reputation as a legendary absurdist comic. The book centers on the sexual misadventures of a young girl named Candy Christian--lithe, taut, impossibly sweet, and as naive as she is irresistible. Chronicling her liaisons with everyone from her father's gardener, a pretentious professor, a shrink, a guru, and even her own uncle, \u003ci\u003eCandy\u003c\/i\u003e follows this luscious all-American girl as she breaks away from her small-town life and sets out to experience the world. Through it all, Candy is exploited, ravaged, and used--and eager as ever to please. A satire of Voltaire's \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCandy\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhilarating romp through the fantasies and perversions of the American male and a fearless portrait of corrupted innocence in a society obsessed with narcissism, power, and commerciality. A hilarious and sexy fable, \u003ci\u003eCandy\u003c\/i\u003e is a countercultural tour de force.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50132178829585,"sku":"GOR003516450","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0850490006.jpg?v=1751233819","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/candy-book-w-clements-9780850490008","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}