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Candy Story (European Women Writers) Paperback – September 1, 1995

by Marie Redonnet (Author), Alexandra Quinn (Author)
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Candy Story recounts a turbulent year in the life of Mia, a young woman whose apparent calm is perpetually threatened by inner doubts and outer catastrophe. Her modest dreams of happiness are dashed by the deaths of her mother, old friends, and her lover. Mia is a talented writer, the author of an autobiographical novel. Now, assailed by calamity and misfortune, she struggles with writer’s block, confounded—at least for the moment—by the senseless world around her.

 

Candy Story is the fourth novel by Marie Redonnet. Translations of the first three—Hôtel Splendid, Forever Valley, and Rose Mellie Rose—are also available from the University of Nebraska Press. In its unadorned prose and passionate focus on the inner life of a young woman, this fourth novel is unmistakably allied to the earlier ones. It will enthrall Redonnet’s admirers and win new ones.

 

Born in Paris in 1947, Redonnet taught for a number of years in a suburban lycée before deciding to pursue a writing career full time. Since her volume of poetry Le Mort & Cie appeared in 1985, she has published four novels, a novella, numerous short stories, and three dramatic works.
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  1. Print length
    99 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bison Books
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 1995
  5. Dimensions
    4.77 x 0.35 x 7.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0803289588
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0803289581
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Somewhere at the bottom (way at the bottom), Candy Story is a tawdry thriller. Corrupt politicians with ruthless henchmen kill to protect illicit gains, while film stars and high-profile writers trade off lovers. Some dozen or so people die before the end, but with all the death and mayhem, this plot is nonetheless tangential. As if to emphasize the superfluity of the characters, Redonnet's given them awfully similar names (Lill, Lind, Lina, Lisa, Li, Line, Lize, Lenz and so on and so forth) which makes it easier just to let the story flow and watch out for the main character?the narrator, Mia?and the main idea: usually the burden of legacy or memory. Mia, who has been having trouble writing a second book to follow her Sise Memories, keeps inheriting things. Money and a house are the practical but not always terribly helpful items, but there's also the memorabilia: an Africanophile friend's written record of the African women he has known and of the progress of the disease he contracted as a result; a military man's memoir, which consists only of complicated mathematical equations; a photo album. Mia's lovers never seem to remember her name during sex, each calling her "Candy" at the crucial moment. Those who have read Redonnet's Hotel Splendid, Forever Valley, and Rose Mellie Rose, all of which were published by Nebraska last year, will recognize certain elements: the swamp and other watery motifs, the decrepit hotel, the mayor's widow. The multiple layers here are more than this slim novel can support, making it a better bet for readers who have already developed a taste for Redonnet's dark, mazy style.
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Redonnet received critical acclaim for her trilogy (Hotel Splendid, Forever Valley, and Rose Mellie Rose), published by the University of Nebraska in 1994. This new work tells the story of Mia, a young writer trying to carry on as the world around her is collapsing. As summer begins, she returns to her girlhood summer home of Sise for the funeral of old friends. Nearby Sise City is preparing for the premier of the latest film based on the work of leading novelist Witz, which Mia will attend. But nothing happens as planned. We meet characters who die off a few pages later. The places Mia visits are all in disrepair. Yet from these ashes, Mia finds a story to tell. Throughout, events are related in Redonnet's signature style, which the Times Literary Supplement describes as "so rigorously factual...that the prose takes on a striking poetry of its own." Recommended for large literature collections and serious readers of international fiction.?Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati Technical Coll.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bison Books (September 1, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 99 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803289588
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803289581
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.77 x 0.35 x 7.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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2.0 out of 5 stars best hurled from the top of a Seineside lighthouse
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2012
Whenever Lilo went to the lighthouse, Lala would read aloud to Lurm from a book. When I was in my studio on the Seine I had the book with me. Kurlu had left a message on the answering machine. After Jack Bobbin and I flew to the seaside I asked Louie about the book. He often read books while working at the front desk in the Seaside Hotel and he said that at bottom it was an attractively tawdry thriller.

Lilo left the seaside town to manage the Sea's Edge Casino. Lail and Cryz thought she was as glamourous as Lali the movie star or Carlotta the famous singer. The televsion crew were filming. Kurlu asked me to a wrap party, but so many people were murdered that Lummy cancelled it. I had put on my green summer Givenchy gown and my forcedly simple writing style but threw the gown into the lighthouse-keeper's bonfire. I kept the style because it was the only one I had and it reminded me of the poetry Lulu's son Lao wrote. Lao likes airports as much as I do. I met him in Arrivals. After drinking lemonades we left from Departures for a seaside place where we had it on in an abandoned dance hall near an empty airport hangar. It was an evocative or a random setting but it wasn't then he hinted that the book's author was equal to Echenoz and Robbe-Grillet.

In my studio on the Seine I wondered where the last year had gone. After I put on my red dress and the puce headband that had looked so nice on Ma's head, I went to Winkle's dining room. Laramie was there, and he told me that I had been wrong to trust Lao and Louie and the publisher's description of the book.

Lulu, Carlotta, Lummy, and the Interpol detective were murdered, and Jack Bobbin wasted away with one of those diseases that Europeans who sleep with Africans get. I wondered how I had wasted away a year at seaside hotels and in my studio on the Seine. Lime wondered why I had wasted an hour reading the book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars 作者の自伝的な作品
Reviewed in Japan on February 23, 2024
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マリー・ルドネの作品は「ローズ・メリー・ローズ」と、「シルシー」と、「ネヴァーモア」を読みましたが、良くも悪くもこの作品が一番心を揺さぶられました。多分、作者の自伝的要素が一番濃い作品だと思います。生々しいので、読むのがつらい部分もありました。が、悲劇的な結果を迎えても、強く生きていけそうな主人公の姿に衝撃を受けました。様々な要素を最終章でびしっと締め上げた作者の天才っぷりには舌を巻きます。間違いなく怪作です。海外の書評を読んでもあまり評価されてないのが不思議です。もっと高評価されていいと思います。
ほかの作品と違い、架空の地名と実在の地名が混在しているので、不思議な感覚にさせられます。登場人物たちも、よく似た名前の人々が登場します。
薄い本ですが、内容は濃いので読書欲は満たされます。
ただ、だれにでもすすめられる本ではないので星は4つです。
ちなみに私は日本人で、英語は読めないので、翻訳アプリで読みました。
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