| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780439683272 | | Publisher: Scholastic | | Publish Date: 2/11/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 30759389 | | Item#: R2XLXQ | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 1.25T | | Pages: 368 | | Age Range: 16 to 21 |
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| | | When Joe meets Candy, it seems like a regular boy-meets-girl scenario. But then Joe is drawn into Candy's world--a world of drugs, violence, and desperation. As the dark truth about Candy's life emerges, Joe finds himself facing real danger at every twist and turn.
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For 15-year-old suburbanite Joe, one small trip to London results in an intense, fatal love of the delectable Candy, a young, heroin-addicted prostitute dominated by Iggy, her cruel, frightening pimp. Joe can't get her out of his mind, and writes a song for her that takes him back to London with his band. Obsessed, his feelings begin to reflect the high and low pitches of Candy's addiction. But her terrifying world--a place of destitution, violence, and narcotics--doesn't get in the way of Joe's desire to save her.
| PraisePublishers Weekly Annex
"Versatile English author Brooks (MARTYN PIG; LUCAS) infuses his latest tale with a romantic--even mythic--grandeur sure to enthrall his fans...This story's gritty street smarts will keep thrill-seekers more than entertained, while Joe's orphic rescue mission into the netherworld of addiction gives more thoughtful readers plenty to ponder." 01/31/2005Booklist
"[P]rovocative, suspenseful...Joe's alternately love-drunk and rueful voice will keep readers engrossed...." 02/01/2005 |
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