Mason Hoffenberg
1) Candy
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 222 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Originally banned in Paris and published by the Olympia Press under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton, Candy is the scandalous 1958 novel cowritten by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, now reissued with an introduction by B. J. Novak. Candy 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...