"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ." He met Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. Gorgeous, sexy, free-spirited Candy. They fell in love fast, lots of laughter and lust, the days melting warmly into each other. He never planned to give her a habit. But she wanted a taste. And wasn't love, after all, about sharing lives? Candy had a bit of money and in the beginning, everything was beautiful. Heady, heroin-hazed days, the world open and inviting. But when the money ran out, the craving remained, and the days ceased their luxurious stretch. But there was still love. Only now, it was a threesome. Heroin had its own demands, its own timetable, and thoughts of nabbing the next fix hurled them into each day. Then, when desperation sets in, Candy will stop at nothing to secure a blast, as she and her lover become hostage to the nightmarish world of addiction. Painful, sexy, tender, and charged with dark humor, Candy provocatively charts the daily rituals of two lovers maintaining a long-term junk habit. Told in stunningly vivid prose and set against the backdrop of suburban and urban Australia, Candy is both an electrifying and frightening glimpse of contemporary life and love.

Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction

Literature & Fiction

Davies, Luke

British & Irish

Ballantine Books

In her schoolgirl days, Isabelle Airly mastered the high jump, sailing over the bar, weightless, above it all. She moved like the wind that drove the ships of old, an elusive, invisible force carefully charted by mariners. Now, in her thirties, she's having more trouble staying afloat. Her father, a gentle physician, has taken his own life, and Isabelle is sorting out the facts about his arrest for insurance fraud, his descent into madness - and how much he really knew about what was going on all those years between his wife and his brother. At the same time, she is mourning a loss of her own, and exploring her memories of a childhood that might not have been as idyllic as it seemed. If Isabelle can chart her father's course, maybe she can chart her own. And if she cannot stop the force of the wind - or be that force herself - maybe she can at least hitch a ride on it until she lands safely on solid ground.

Isabelle the Navigator

Literary

Berkley Trade

From the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Lion "I will fly at last. I will unfold my wings. I will unpack my head. I will step back outside. One day I may even make love again. But one thing at a time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves." Film mogul, aviator, addict, inventor, visionary, recluse, serial womanizer, political meddler: Howard Hughes was one of the strangest and most significant figures of the twentieth century. His obsessive-compulsive disorder would end up crippling and isolating him; in the end he self-medicated his way into oblivion. It's a summer night in 1973, and holed up in his hotel penthouse in London, Hughes can't sleep. Tomorrow he takes control of an airplane for the first time in more than fifteen years. As the reclusive, drug-addled billionaire waits for dawn, the shape and preoccupations of the times emerge from his ruined psyche; a world of oil, flight, money, movies, drugs, sex, power, greed, fear, and yearning for America. Blackly funny, muscular and rhythmic, transcendent and debauched, God of Speed is a fever dream, a giant and extraordinary leap of the imagination into the fractured mind of a man who was both great and greatly fallen.

God of Speed

Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book

Brûler sa vie par tous les bouts. 
" Nous nous évaporerons ou nous serons engloutis." 
La vie d'Howard Hughes, aviateur célèbre, cinéaste sulfureux et producteur fou, commence dans les paillettes, la poudre et les projets grandioses. Toute une vie à rechercher le septième ciel, l'amour dans les étoiles avec, entre autres, Billy Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe ou Jane Russell, narrée sur le mode de la conversation entre deux vieux amis au soir de leur vie. Rien n'est éludé de la personnalité extravagante du milliardaire : ses accidents d'avion, la douleur lancinante qui en découle, les crises de nerfs, la prise permanente de tranquillisants et autres substances. Un roman haletant et trépidant, à l'image de son auteur, double instinctif de la figure de l'aviateur, qui offre le récit d'une vie mythique. À tire-d'aile.

Candy

H D ORMESSON

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Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction

Isabelle the Navigator

God of Speed

Candy