Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction
by Luke Daviesliterary work· published 1998
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Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (1997) is a novel by Luke Davies. The novel follows an unnamed narrator and his relationship with Candy, his girlfriend and later wife, and their addiction to heroin. The novel was loosely based on Luke Davies' own troubles with addiction and after the release of a movie adaptation of the novel Australian painter Megan Bannister, Davies' ex-wife, identified herself as the inspiration for Candy. In 2006 the novel was adapted into a movie directed by Neil Armfield from a script by Davies starring Heath Ledger as the narrator and Abbie Cornish as Candy.
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Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction was adapted into a 2006 film.
Candy2006 · film · 108 min · dir. Neil Armfield · IMDb ↗A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
