The author’s descriptions of candy are good enough to eat and we begin to share his passion as soon as we open the book. You’ll have a hard time resisting the urge for a chocolate bar after just a few pages! But the book is about more than just candy–it’s about the real America, its true candy, the stuggles of those who make it, and the fight to preserve a way of life that’s quickly fading. The author’s brave, moving tale makes us realize our common bond through candy and teaches us the importance of preserving this important part of our American heritage.
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Perhaps you remember the whipped splendor of the Choco-Lite, or the luscious Caravelle bar, or maybe the sublime and perfectly balanced Hershey’s Cookies ‘n Mint. The Marathon, an inimitable rope of caramel covered in chocolate. Oompahs. Bit-O-Choc. The Kit Kat Dark.
Steve Almond certainly does. In fact, he was so obsessed by the inexplicable disappearance of these bars—where’d they go?—that he embarked on a nationwide journey to uncover the truth about the candy business. There, he found an industry ruled by huge conglomerates, where the little guys, the last remaining link to the glorious boom years of the candy bar in America, struggle to survive.
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Visiting the candy factories that produce the Twin Bing, the Idaho Spud, the Goo Goo Cluster, the Valomilk, and a dozen other quirky bars, Almond finds that the world of candy is no longer a sweet haven. Today’s precious few regional candy makers mount daily battles against corporate greed, paranoia, and that good old American compulsion: crushing the little guy.
Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. By turns ecstatic, comic, and bittersweet, Candyfreak is the story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy—and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up, too.
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Details
- File Size: 2407 KB ( Download PDF :
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- Print Length: 279 pages
- Language: English
- Author: Steve Almond
- Publisher: Algonquin Books (May 4, 2004)
- Publication Date: May 4, 2004
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
About the Author
Steve Almond has published over one hundred stories and poems—in publications ranging from Playboy to Tin House to Zoetrope—and a two previous collections of stories, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow. He is the author of the bestselling novel Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.
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