<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling parody of Voltaire&rsquo;s Candide that was banned in France and went on to become a salacious cult classic. Candy is a perfect, idealistic, innocent girl, born on Valentine&rsquo;s Day, which, her daddy says, is why she&rsquo;s so beautiful. At college in Racine, Wisconsin, she listens earnestly to Professor Mephisto&rsquo;s lecture on philosophy and how &ldquo;deep and aching are the needs of man&rdquo;&mdash;and takes his pronouncement to heart. She will dedicate the rest of her days to bringing the sweet balm of her warmth to all those lonely men on her arduous path to spiritual enlightenment&mdash;a hunchback, a crazed gynecologist in a bar bathroom, her father&rsquo;s lecherous twin brother, her guru at the nutty Cracker Foundation . . . It is in Tibet, during an earthquake, that Candy will finally find full . . . enlightenment. This rollicking tale, by a duo of authors including the legendary Dr. Strangelove screenwriter who also wrote for Saturday Night Live and toured with the Rolling Stones over the course of his colorful career, is, in the words of William Styron, &ldquo;wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.&rdquo; This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate and an extended biography of Mason Hoffenberg.</div>

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<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s cult classic skewers America&rsquo;s obsession with money, fame, guns, and sex&mdash;&ldquo;A satirical gem&rdquo; (John Berendt). Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to &ldquo;make it hot for people,&rdquo; Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom. Concocting deliciously perverse mayhem, he throws a million one-hundred-dollar bills into an enormous vat of steaming offal, proving just what people will do for money, and he promotes a new silky shampoo that turns hair to wire and a deodorant that becomes a time-released stench-bomb. He inserts subliminally suggestive and perverse images into well-loved classic films, takes a howitzer on safari, and brings a panther to a kennel club dog show. His most elaborate adventure is an ultra-exclusive cruise aboard the S.S. Magic Christian, where elite passengers are treated to a series of madcap indignities. The Magic Christian is a hilarious and savagely satiric view of American commercialism, rich in Southern&rsquo;s deft handling of detail, dialogue, and delightful deviancy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

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<div>An evocative, poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural Texas in the 1950s Through events small and large, thirteen-year-old Harold Stevens grows up during a pivotal summer in the red-dirt backcountry of West Texas. With his friend C.K. Crow, the black field hand who works for Harold&rsquo;s father, he shoots deer and quail, fishes for catfish, mends fences, grows and learns about marijuana, and tests his emerging manhood against bullies, bulls, and the irresistible charms of his horse-riding older cousin. During a hysterical trip to a circus sideshow, Harold and a buddy sneak backstage to see &ldquo;The Great Hermaphrodite&rdquo; and the &ldquo;funny little old Monkey Man,&rdquo; whom they try to buy a beer. But danger waits on the fringe of this innocent time. When C.K.&rsquo;s brother, Big Nail, appears after escaping from a chain gang, an inevitable and violent confrontation between the brothers is set in motion&mdash;a confrontation that will mark the end of Harold&rsquo;s childhood. This insideview of Southern&rsquo;s roots in Alvarado, Texas, where pastoral innocence belied an undercurrent of racism and violence, brings this novel of a boy&rsquo;s transition to maturity vividly alive. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Texas Summer

<div>A darkly hilarious, wildly erotic satire of Hollywood from &ldquo;the only author capable of handling mayhem on a gigantic scale&rdquo; (Esquire). King B., the world&rsquo;s most admired filmmaker&mdash;winner of a string of Oscars and awards from Cannes to Venice&mdash;takes on a new project: the most expensive, star-studded, high-quality, X-rated film ever made. He joins forces with producer Sid Krassman, who&rsquo;s made a fortune with B movies, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who longs to do &ldquo;serious&rdquo; work. After convincing the principality of Liechtenstein to host the production in exchange for a distribution exclusive to boost tourism, King B. and Krassman arrive with cast and crew to make The Faces of Love. While keeping the nature of the film secret from American bankers, King B. lines up a host of European and American big-name stars. But word leaks out to the local religious groups and possibly even the Vatican. Between the Cardinal&rsquo;s attempts to sabotage production and the big egos and even bigger libidos behind the scenes, the enterprise plummets into hilarious anarchy. Blue Movie is comic eroticism at its best&mdash;populated by over-the-top characters, memorable dialogue, and perverse vignettes, and colored by razor-sharp insights into the film industry. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Blue Movie

<div>A satirical dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los Angeles Dr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken private detective, a mad judge, a car crash, a game show called &ldquo;What&rsquo;s My Disease,&rdquo; and a hashish party, Treevly drives Eichner to madness and mayhem. It is through comedy and a strange blend of violence and poetic delicacy that the novel charms. Southern&rsquo;s first novel, Flash and Filigree was turned down by seventeen timorous American publishers. It was Southern&rsquo;s mentor, the &ldquo;genius&rdquo; English novelist Henry Green, who brought the book to the attention of a leading British publishing house, which released it to high praise. A fast-paced dark comedy, Flash and Filigree established Terry Southern as one of the finest American prose stylists to emerge in Paris after the War. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Flash and Filigree

<div>An unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America&rsquo;s wildest&mdash;and most brilliant&mdash;comedic and literary minds Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman Starting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the world&rsquo;s most interesting places. He spent the fifties on the Left Bank of Paris, the sixties in mod London, and the seventies touring with the Rolling Stones. When the Beatles rolled out their famous pantheon of movers and shakers for the cover of Sgt. Pepper, Terry was the only guy wearing shades. When police broke heads during the &rsquo;68 democratic convention in Chicago, Southern was there to bear witness. And when Stanley Kubrick needed someone to make Dr. Strangelove funny, there was only one man qualified for the job. As the golden age of rock &rsquo;n&rsquo; roll wound down, Southern never stopped writing, and his prose never lost its trademark intensity. Filthy, fierce, and relentlessly dazzling, these letters, essays, stories, and interviews are an electric testament to one of the keenest wits of the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

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Candy

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Texas Summer

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Books By Terry Southern (6 Books)

Candy

The Magic Christian

Texas Summer

Blue Movie

Flash and Filigree

Now Dig This

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