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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.

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9781665184717

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[Candyfreak is] part memoir and part candy history. It's Almond's journey from childhood to adulthood, eating his way through both sorrow and joy, exploring what all the sweet stuff means and has meant to him. -- Raleigh News and Observer A chewy, charming literary valentine...The book begins funny, gets a little creepy, and, with liberal amounts of humor and heart, becomes powerfully good. -- San Diego Union-Tribune Almond is frank, witty, and engaging, and his book has a nutty crunch all its own and is not so sweet that you'll feel icky when you finish with it. -- San Jose Mercury News An exuberant tribute to cheap, plentiful, locally produced sweets and 'the small, attainable pleasures' they provide. Like a good candy bar: a piece of delicious ephemeral fun. -- San Francisco Chronicle Combines the patter of a stand-up comic with the soul of a 10-year-old whose allowance is burning a hole in his pocket. -- Boston Globe My husband uses [a] good German word, 'schmackvoll.' Rough translation, he says: lip-smacking good. And so it is with Candyfreak. 'Schmackvoll.' -- Seattle Times

"""[Candyfreak is] part memoir and part candy history. It's Almond's journey from childhood to adulthood, eating his way through both sorrow and joy, exploring what all the sweet stuff means and has meant to him."" -- ""Raleigh News and Observer"" ""A chewy, charming literary valentine...The book begins funny, gets a little creepy, and, with liberal amounts of humor and heart, becomes powerfully good."" -- ""San Diego Union-Tribune"" ""Almond is frank, witty, and engaging, and his book has a nutty crunch all its own and is not so sweet that you'll feel icky when you finish with it."" -- ""San Jose Mercury News"" ""An exuberant tribute to cheap, plentiful, locally produced sweets and 'the small, attainable pleasures' they provide. Like a good candy bar: a piece of delicious ephemeral fun."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""Combines the patter of a stand-up comic with the soul of a 10-year-old whose allowance is burning a hole in his pocket."" -- ""Boston Globe"" ""My husband uses [a] good German word, 'schmackvoll.' Rough translation, he says: lip-smacking good. And so it is with Candyfreak. 'Schmackvoll.'"" -- ""Seattle Times"""

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"Steve Almond is the author of the bestselling Candyfreak and two story collections. He is a commentator on the NPR affiliate WBUR in Boston. Oliver Wyman, a native New Yorker, has appeared on stage as well as in film, and television. He is one of the founders of New York City's Collective Unconscious theater, and his performances include the award-winning ""reality play"" Charlie Victor Romeo and A.R. McElhinney's cult classic film A Chronicle of Corpses. He also lent his voice to several episodes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oliver's work as a narrator extends to over 150 audiobooks and has won many him awards, including Audie awards for his reading of Lance Armstrong's autobiography, It's Not About the Bike, and Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat. He also read James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Tim Dorsey's Atomic Lobster, and David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder. Oliver has won five Audie Awards from the Audio Publisher's Association, fourteen Earphone Awards from AudioFile Magazine, and two Listen Up Awards from Publisher's Weekly. Oliver was named a 2008 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture by AudioFile Magazine."

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