By Luke Davies
Ballantine Books, 1998.
Like Trainspotting, Candy depicts heroin addicts in a British subculture, but it is set in Australia, not Scotland. “Candy” is the slang name of the unnamed narrator’s two great loves: his girlfriend and heroin. He introduces her to the drug, and they descend from being high on life, love, and drugs, [...]
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Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction
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Perma Red: A Novel
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By Debra Magpie Earling
Blue Hen Books (Penguin), 2003.
In this beautiful first novel, set on the Flathead Reservation of Montana in the 1940s, Earling traces the youth and young adulthood of Louise White Elk and the men who try to win her heart and soul. A red-headed, mixed-blood temptress, Louise always has a man or two, [...]
