Candy
10 best books like Candy (Luke Davies): Leaving Las Vegas, Cottonmouth Kisses, Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir, Candy, Beauty Queen, Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America, In My Skin: A Memoir, My Invented Life, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction, Rx
| Author | John O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0802134459 |
Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O’Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it. Sera, a prostitute, and Ben, an alcoholic, stumble together and discover in each other a respite from their unforgiving lives. A testimony to the...
| Author | Clint Catalyst |
| ISBN | 0916397653 |
With wicked sarcasm and brilliant agility, Catalyst shreds the surface of all his many subjects—gay relationships, backwater adolescence, and spiraling addiction—and ignites a bonfire of personal honesty. Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club or revealing the...
| Author | James Salant |
| ISBN | 1416936297 |
With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy. At the age of eighteen, after one too many run-ins with the cops for drug possession, he left his upper-middle-class home in Princeton, New Jersey, for a stint at a rehab...
| Author | Kevin Brooks |
| ISBN | 0439683289 |
When Joe Beck, a fifteen-year-old suburban kid, gets lost in a disreputable neighborhood on his way to an appointment in London, he is struck dumb by his first sight of beautiful and seemingly innocent Candy. She talks with him, teases him, but reveals nothing about herself except her phone number....
I felt the prick of the needle, but only for a second, because this great rush of warmth quickly followed, encompassing my whole body from my toes right up to the top hair on my head. I couldn't move for a minute as she guided the needle in and out of my vein. When she was done, I felt like I had entered heaven....
| Author | Jennifer Storm |
| ISBN | 1592854680 |
A riveting memoir of what happens to a teenage girl whose life is awash in alcohol, drugs, and the trauma of rape.
Jennifer Storm's Blackout Girl is a can't-tear-yourself-away look at teenage addiction and redemption. At age six, Jennifer Storm was stealing sips of her mother's cocktails....
| Author | Kate Holden |
| ISBN | 1559708301 |
Called "Quite simply in a class of its own . . . the work of a stunningly talented writer who both graces and surpasses her material" (Guardian), this is the frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman's descent into heroin addiction and prostitution and the long, arduous struggle to redeem her...
| Author | Lauren Bjorkman |
| ISBN | 0805089500 |
With Roz and Eva everything becomes a contest--who can snag the best role in the school play, have the cutest boyfriend, pull off the craziest prank. Still, they're as close as sisters can be. Until Eva deletes Roz from her life like so much junk e-mail for no reason that Roz understands. Now Eva hangs out...
| Author | Elizabeth Wurtzel |
| ISBN | 0743223314 |
Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.
For all of her professional success, Wurtzel...
| Author | Tracy Lynn |
| ISBN | 1416911553 |
Thyme Gilchrest is an honors student.
Thyme Gilchrest is popular.
Thyme Gilchrest is on student council.
Thyme Gilchrest is a drug dealer.
Like piecing together a logic puzzle, Thyme has organized a complex trading system that enables her to obtain the meds her friends need....
| Author | Lynn Marie Smith |
| ISBN | 0743490444 |
Lynn Marie Smith never wanted to be an addict. A popular straight-A student from small-town Pennsylvania, she moved to New York City to pursue her dream of acting. In the city, she came in contact with new people, new ideas, and a completely new way of life- a way that exposed her to drugs. She tried pot,...
| Author | Rebecca Godfrey |
| ISBN | 0060094850 |
“The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing -- like S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, except about girls.” — Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin
At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of...
| Author | Henry Handel Richardson |
| ISBN | 1406838713 |
I am proofreading (R2-R3) this book for Gutenberg-Adelaide. I hope the corrections I've made will improve the manuscript's quality.
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This is the first book written by Henry...
| Author | Brian James |
| ISBN | 0439279895 |
A spellbinding trip of a novel about three friends breaking apart in their quest to stave off boredom and sameness.
It's not about the drugs. It's not about the girls or the fights or the fading streetlights. It's about two nights that weren't going to be different from the rest but then took a...
| Author | Linda Yablonsky |
| ISBN | 0316968080 |
New York City. March 1986. The world is made of junk: junk bonds, junk food, junk powder. At least, that's how it seems to a woman in a downtown walkup, where every day for five years she's been opening her door to people engaged in the culture of the moment. Some of them are getting famous, some are changing...
| Author | John Birmingham |
| ISBN | 0091842034 |
Author(s): John Birmingham ISBN: 9780091842031 Binding: Paperback Published: 2000-08-04 Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history. Terrifying tsunamis, corpse-robbing morgue...
"I could feel my chin falling toward my chest, my back hunching forward. My body was acting on its own, and my mind was empty, like all my memories had been erased. There was scenery behind my lids. Aqua-colored water and powdery sand that extended for miles. I was never going back to coke. I wanted more heroin....
| Author | Janice Erlbaum |
| ISBN | 0812974565 |
At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangerous home life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklyn apartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night at a shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a...
| Author | Christos Tsiolkas |
| ISBN | 0091839424 |
Author(s): Christos Tsiolkas ISBN: 9780091839420 Binding: Paperback Published: 1999-05-07 What happens to a family when something unspeakable shatters its core? Something so shocking the whole world wants to know about it? No-one knows what made Tommy Stefano do what he did that night. Was it his...
| Author | Stephen Fried |
| ISBN | 0671701053 |
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, in Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club while redefining the industry's...
| Author | Dorothy Porter |
| ISBN | 1852425490 |
Mickey is a sweet nineteen-year-old girl, who loves poetry and poets, but has just gone missing in suspicious circumstances. Private investigator Jill Fitzpatrick is hired to find her. In her search for the truth, in what becomes a murder hunt, Jill is seduced by the alluring Diana Mailand, Mickey's...
| Author | Nick Earls |
| ISBN | 0330355333 |
Richard Derrington's doing it tough.
Since Anna trashed him his job seems pointles, Tuesday seems moderately fucked by ten, his tennis appalling.....long periods of complete crap, punctuated by flashes of very random glory and the future bleka.
This is a hiatus? There I was thinking...
