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Candyfreak : a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America / Steve Almond.

Almond, Steve. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0156032937
  • ISBN: 9780156032933
  • Physical Description: xxii, 256 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Harvest edition
  • Publisher: Orlando : Harcourt, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Some Things You Should Know about the Author xv -- Author Will Now Rationalize 1 -- Chocolate = Enabler 8 -- In Which an Unhealthy Pattern of Dependence Is Established 10 -- An Ill-Advised Discussion of Freak Economics 16 -- Night of the Living Freak 21 -- Mistakes Were Made 25 -- Caravelle: An Elegy 29 -- I [characters not reproducible] Manny 39 -- Feeding the Beast 45 -- A Top-Secret Chocolate Situation 51 -- Politics of the Rack 56 -- Last Man in America with Black Jack Gum 62 -- Capo Di Tutti Freak 71 -- Love Song of Ray Luthar Broekel 76 -- Welcome to the Boom 82 -- There Are Men upon This Earth Who Tread Like Gods 90 -- Feuilletine, Revealed 97 -- Freak Fetish 105 -- Official Dark Horse Freak of Philadelphia 108 -- Wee Willie and the Pop-a-Licks Rage 115 -- Southern-Fried Freak 123 -- Chocolate Haiku 130 -- Freak Retentive 139 -- In the Belly of the Freak 142 -- Unstoppable Freak Energy of Mr. Marty Palmer 145 -- Southbound with the Hammers Down 163 -- Candy Bar on Your Chin 168 -- Marshmallow Parallax 177 -- A Depressing but Necessary Digression 189 -- Boise: Gateway to ... Boise 191 -- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Idaho Spud 195 -- Huckleberry, Hounded 206 -- American Lunch 214 -- How Will the Spud Survive? 218 -- Past Is Just Ahead 224 -- Remember This Name: Banana-Zaba 231 -- A Second Depressing but Necessary Digression 238 -- A Little Hidden Bomb in My Idaho Spud 240 -- A Few Final Relevant Facts 244.
Target Audience Note:
1080L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.7 11 85548.
Subject:
Almond, Steve.
Candy industry > United States.
Candy.
Chocolate.

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