The Candy men : the rollicking life and times of the notorious novel Candy / Nile Southern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Southern, Nile.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kenton, Maxwell. Candy.

Kenton, Maxwell.

Southern, Terry--Relations with publishers.

Southern, Terry.

Relations with publishers.

Hoffenberg, Mason.

Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Americans.

Literature publishing.

History.

Authors and publishers.

France--Paris.

Authors and publishers--History--20th century.

Literature publishing--History--20th century.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Satire, American--History and criticism.

Satire, American.

Piracy (Copyright).

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Time Warner Book Group, [2004]

Summary:

In the early fall of 1958 there appeared in Paris, in the familiar dull-green cover of the already notorious Olympia Press, a novel entitled Candy, a Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide by one Maxwell Kenton, pseudonym of its coauthors Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. Following a modest first printing, the book drew the attention of the French censors, was banned, reissued by Olympia's intrepid publisher Maurice Girodias under the title Lollipop, rebanned, then again reissued. Within years it became one of the most talked-about novels of the tumultuous 1960s, selling in the millions of copies in America alone, its success prompting Hollywood to turn it into a movie. The rollicking, hilarious, and sometimes tragic story of Candy's public career is recounted here in full detail by Nile Southern, son of Terry Southern. From the book's humble beginnings in Paris in the late 1950s through an agonizing three-year gestation (often on paper napkins, lost, stolen, or destroyed) and the authors' wily, often self-destructive business dealings with their equally wily French publisher, to its chaotic and controversial publication in the United States, The Candy Men follows with unblinking scrutiny Candy's underground then mainstream success, the legal shenanigans surrounding it, the blatant piracy that plagued it almost from the start, and the star-studded cast with whose help it was made into one of the worst motion pictures of all time. Replete with deceptions and self-deceptions, midnight dope runs, betrayals left, right and center, court cases galore, and, in short, general pandemonium, The Candy Men -- starring Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg, and Maurice Girodias -- is as much fun to read as the original novel itself.

Contents:

Part I Beyond the Beat

1 Paris: 1947-1953 3

2 A Booklegger's Son 14

3 Greenwich Village: 1952-1955 23

4 Enter Candy Christian 28

5 Giving the Old Head a Breather 36

6 Our Poets Love It So 45

7 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Geneva, 1956-1958 52

8 Publishers and Other Criminals 62

9 Essentially More Warm Than You 68

10 I to the Hunchback, and Thou Therefrom 74

11 Mason Gets Cooking 81

12 This Souped-Up Correspondence 91

13 "... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Jack Off!" 101

14 Flashpoint: 1958 113

15 A House O'Porn Extraordinaire 119

16 Just Call Me Lollipop 125

Part II Stealing Candy

17 New Life, New England 137

18 Candy Goes to Italy, Mason Gets Nervous 148

19 Getting the Kaiser on Paper 157

20 The Olympia Review 164

21 sHit Habit (#6) 172

22 The Naked and the Sucked 179

23 Fuzz Against Junk 192

24 What the Fuck Is Wrong with Your Eyes? 204

25 The Candy Wars 208

26 Something Worth Blasting 220

27 A Suitable Vehicle for Prosecution 226

28 Candy Does America 235

29 Going Hollywood 248

30 Enter the Pirates 257

Part III Unreeling Candy

31 "Good Grief, Me a Movie?" 269

32 Half of Paris for the Rights 278

33 Bedlam Was Never So Hectic 284

34 Tangled Up in Gid 292

35 With the Spring Comes Mason and Brando 303

36 Scrawlings on a Cave Wall 316

Part IV Birds of a Feather, Falling

37 Weird Scenes Inside the Big Pink 325

38 Mason Licks Terry 337

39 The Refreshing Ambiguity of the Deja Vu 349

Appendix A Selected Interviews with Terry Southern Concerning Candy and "Pornography" 357

Appendix B Anatomy of a Pornectomy 360.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-379) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

155970604X

OCLC:

47869501