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The Candy Men, the Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy

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The Candy Men

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the Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy

In the early fall of 1958, the already-notorious Olympia Press in Paris published a novel entitled Candy-an erotic, Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide written by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton. The novel was banned by French censors, reissued by Olympia's intrepid publisher under the title Lollipop, re-banned, and again reissued. It became one of the most talked-about novels of the 1960s, selling millions of copies in America alone and spawning a Hollywood movie. Here, the hilarious, rebellious, sometimes tragic story of Candy's public career is recounted in full, from the book's humble beginnings in late 1950s Paris, through the authors' wily, often self-destructive business dealings with their equally wily French publisher, to its chaotic and controversial publication in the United States

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