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Candy
by Luke Davies
A love story in which heroin becomes a third partner, then narrows two lives into dependence and collapse.
- 1997
The story, briefly
Spoiler-freeA young Australian couple organize their romance around heroin until intimacy, desire, money, withdrawal, and desperation become impossible to separate.
What's inside
Two young lovers experience heroin as part of their private world before dependence consumes the relationship around it.
Why we recommend it
Lovers spiraling together
Davies follows shared intoxication from romance and private freedom into codependency, withdrawal, and desperation.
What this book explores
Book editions
- Paperback
- Ballantine Books
- 1998
- 9780345423870
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