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Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061336966
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0061336963
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Editorial Review:
From the critically acclaimed author of I Am Not Myself These Days comes the very odd adventures of a starry-eyed young man from the Midwest seeking fame and fortune in the flamboyant surreality of New York, Los Angeles . . . and everywhere in between.
Jayson Blocher is tired of worshiping pop culture; he wants to be part of it. So he's off, accompanied by an ever-changing cast of quirky extended family members, on an extremely bumpy journey from rural Wisconsin to a New York escort agency for Broadway chorus boys, to a Hollywood sitcom set. Somewhere out there his destiny awaits—along with the discovery of first love, some unusual coincidences, a kidnapping mystery . . . and the sobering truth that being America's sweetheart can leave a very sour aftertaste.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Fasten your seat belt, and put phasers on STUN-ning!
Reading kind of like a VH1-style "I Love the 80's" special on steroids, "Candy Everyone Wants" is a madcap, extremely "over-the-top" story of a rather eventful year in the life of Jayson Blocher, a joyously flamboyantly gay boy from a small town in Wisconsin. A series of events lead to his leaving home to go to Manhattan and live with his estranged father, who runs an escort agency for men who want to spend time with Broadway chorus boys. Jason meets Devlin, a slightly older boy who starred in a ... Read More
Rating:  - If you loved the memoir, you won't like the novel
I adored I Am Not Myself These Days. It's like a different writer created this dreadful "novel." To me, it was quite sophomoric and not even remotely witty. Silly, perhaps, without a shred of charm to it. JK-P should have kept this hidden in his sock drawer.
Rating: - Another Great Book
Josh Kilmer-Purcell has done it again. Hysterical tail of a creative kid trying to follow his dream while growing up with a variety of dysfunctional characters around him. Hard to put down, wish there was more!
Rating: - Josh is by far one of the most interesting writers of all time.
Please make sure you have plenty of time when you begin a book like this...as you will be glued to it from that point on! Enjoy.
Rating: - Delicious Candy
Kilmer-Purcell, Josh. "Candy Everybody Wants", Harper Perennial, 2008.
Delicious Candy
Amos Lassen
"Candy Everybody Wants" is a very funny book. Kilmer-Purcell looks back at the 1980's and the pop culture of the period and shows how the culture we have today is the result of what we had then. Our main character is Jason Blocher has been in awe of 80's culture and decides that his turn has come to be a part of it. He is from Wisconsin and after tiring of rural ... Read More
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