Candyfreak A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

Name: Candyfreak A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
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ISBN: 9781565124219

ISBN-10: 1565124219

ISBN-13: 9781565124219

Edition: 2004

Authors: Steve Almond

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 5/4/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 5.75" wide x 7.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836

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.



Prologue: Some Things You Should Know about the Author





The Author Will Now Rationalize


Chocolate = Enabler


In Which an Unhealthy Pattern of Dependence Is Established


An Ill-Advised Discussion of Freak Economics


Night of the Living Freak


Mistakes Were Made





Caravelle: An Elegy


I Love Manny


Feeding the Beast





A Top-Secret Chocolate Situation


The Politics of the Rack


The Last Man in America with Black Jack Gum





The Capo Di Tutti Freak


The Love Song of Ray Luthar Broekel


Welcome to the Boom





There Are Men upon This Earth Who Tread Like Gods


Feuilletine, Revealed


Freak Fetish





The Official Dark Horse Freak of Philadelphia


Wee Willie and the Pop-a-Licks Rage





Southern-Fried Freak


Chocolate Haiku


Freak Retentive





In the Belly of the Freak


The Unstoppable Freak Energy of Mr. Marty Palmer


Southbound with the Hammers Down





The Candy Bar on Your Chin


The Marshmallow Parallax


A Depressing but Necessary Digression





Boise: Gateway to ... Boise


Ladies and Gentlemen, the Idaho Spud


Huckleberry, Hounded


American Lunch


How Will the Spud Survive?





The Past Is Just Ahead


Remember This Name: Banana-Zaba





A Second Depressing but Necessary Digression


A Little Hidden Bomb in My Idaho Spud


A Few Final Relevant Facts


Acknowledgments


Freak Appendix