Candy
ISBN:
9781864483390 (1864483393)
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Pages no: 286
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Drama,
Health,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mental Health,
Australia
Opening Line: "There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times."Wow this was fantastic, in a watching a beautiful car crash sort of way. Following the day to day struggles, triumphs and ultimate decay of a heroin addict and his girlfriend. It was almost impossibl...
An engaging, darkly humourous and appropriately fragmented story that holds its own in the youth-drug-culture genre, but manages to do more. We get an account of humanity under the influence of forces that it cannot understand and deal with adequately. It makes some very flawed and bitter and beauti...