by Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg · Planeta. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432032349
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Candy is a satirical novel written by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, published by Planeta in 1977. The story follows Candy Christian, a naive young woman who embarks on a series of comical and absurd sexual encounters while searching for the meaning of life. The novel is a parody of erotic literature and has been the subject of controversy for its explicit sexual content.
Terry Southern was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. He briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s.
