The New York Times–bestselling parody of Voltaire's Candide that was banned in France and went on to become a salacious cult classic.Candy is a perfect, idealistic, innocent girl, born on Valentine's Day, which, her daddy says, is why she's so beautiful. At college in Racine, Wisconsin, she listens earnestly to Professor Mephisto's lecture on philosophy and how "deep and aching are the needs of man"—and takes his pronouncement to heart.She w...

Galloping horses in the Mexican night, a superb body reclining under the high tropical trees, blood and guitars, madness and beauty, the gnawing pain of love and death: a book one reads in a trance...--message from a used bookseller that we thought we'd pass on. One of Hoffenberg's (co-author of Candy) solo efforts for Olympia, this is a tale of Miguel, a man who learns the joys of hot-blooded Latin dominance, marijuana, and murder--pretty much in that order.