Download The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy AudioBook Free

In the nature of VH1's Behind the Music comes this disclosing behind-the-scenes look at the making, breaking, remaking, pirating, filming and legal wrangling of the '60s cult happening 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 publicized in 1958 by the notorious People from france publisher Maurice Giordias. The e book was immediately forbidden, then reissued under the name Lollipop, forbidden again, then reissued again, sanitized in England and eventually transported stateside, where because of Putnam and a slew of publishing pirates, it leapt to bestsellerdom and was eventually crowned "the world's most talked about e book."Southern's own child, Nile, has recounted the novel's bumpy and exciting journey in a magnificent epistolary style, reprinting the correspondence between Candy's creators, its publisher and its progressively complicated web of included people. The compilation properly captures the "growing misunderstandings, temper tantrums, paranoid fixations, jealousies, dreams and utter despair that every of these men went through as they attempted to regain control over their book lost in a miasma of cloudy copyright." (Miasma is an apt term: by the second 50 % of the e book the legal fog is so heavy that it's nearly impossible to keep an eye on who's suing whom.) Raucous and voyeuristic, this biography of your e book offers valuable insight into the Master views of Paris and NY, as well as into the publishing world during a time of shifting behaviour toward censorship. Perhaps most importantly, it offers a home window onto the lives and intellects of two wildly creative literary individuals: the creators Southern and Hoffenberg themselves.

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