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| THE CANDY FACTORY Sylvia Fraser's second novel takes us on an expedition into the the tangled relationships between the sexes, the classes and the generations. Set in Hunter Confectionery - a mythic candy factory where life is anything but sweet - it ironically examines the affluent, urban society of the seventies through the lives of eleven main characters, ranging from owner Charles X. Hunter, trapped in a life of wealth and obligation, to the nameless tramp, secretly living in the factory's bowels, who creates art out of his own excrement. |
| PRAISE FOR THE CANDY FACTORY "The Candy Factory is filled with luscious bonbons. . brilliant episodes, alternately chilling, touching and comic ... delicate and gross ... Sylvia Fraser does not disappoint!" - Books in Canada "Gaudy, funny, bitter, hopeful, wild and controlled at the same time... bristles with insight, especially into sexuality - even male sexuality. - Toronto Star "About the relationships between men and women ... about destructive role-playing and hypocritical poses ... about violence ... The bawdy sexual scenes, the erotic thoughts and attitudes, are frequently very funny .... It manages to be earthy and surreal, comic and serious." - Ottawa Journal "Guaranteed to shock... written in the strongest of language, not 'four letter words,' but graphic, picture creating words .... Sylvia Fraser is the most interesting Canadian novelist since Richler and Davies." - Vancouver Province |