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His best known works are Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film Lion, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Davies also co-wrote the screenplay for the film News of the World.
Luke Davies has 26 books on Goodreads with 22365 ratings. Luke Davies’s most popular book is Candy.
Davies has published five books of poetry, including Running With Light, which was the winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2000, and Totem, which won the 2004 Age Book of the Year Award. He was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry in 2004. He has completed several resid.
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List of the published work of Luke Davies, Australian writer. Novels. Davies, Luke (1997). Candy. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. — (1998). Candy (1st UK ed.). London: Vintage Books. Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (Ballantine Books, New York 1998) ISBN 0-345-42387-9 [1] Isabelle the Navigator (Allen & Unwin Publishers, Sydney 2000)
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An unnamed narrator who is addicted to heroin introduces his beloved blonde girlfriend, Candy, to the drug. Early in their relationship the couple try to detox separately, with the narrator staying in Sydney while Candy returns home to Melbourneto stay clean. While Candy succeeds the narrator fails to stay clean and when she returns home she quickl...
Davies has admitted the novel is based on his experiences as a heroin addict in the 1980s, the "worst years" being 1984 to 1990. Sydney and Melbourne were the epicentres of a "severe" heroin problem during this period.Davies has also emphasised that the novel is "fiction rather than memoir". Following the release of the film based on the book, also...
Candy is an intense, and at times taxing, exploration of the heroin addiction shared by a young couple deeply in love. Beyond being a love story with a cautionary tale about drug addiction, Candy looks at the human need for escapism. Through the main character's relationship we see the self-deceptions that addicts use to justify their rapid degrada...
Shortlisted, Christina Stead Prize for fiction, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards1999Joint Winner, Best Young Australian Novelist, The Sydney Morning Herald1998Shortlisted, Addison Wesley Longman Award for the Best Cover/Jacket DA film adaptation, also called Candy (2006), stars Heath Ledger as Dan, Abbie Cornish as Candy, Geoffrey Rush as Casper, Noni Hazlehurst as Mrs. Wyatt, and Tony Martin as Mr. Wyatt. It was directed by Neil Armfield and produced by Emile Sherman and Margaret Fink.
1997, Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 9781864483390. Issued in paperback. pp. [viii] 2861998, USE, Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-42387-9, Pub date 16 June 1998, Softcover1998, Vintage Books, Random House, UK[citation needed]Luke Davies is an Australian writer of novels and poetry. He has published two novels, Isabelle the Navigator and the cult bestseller Candy, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 1998.
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May 9, 2017 · Candy Man - Part 1. Luke Davies and his girlfirend Megan Bannister in 1986 and Luke Davies at the 2017 BAFTA awards. ( Supplied: David Verrall / Reuters: Toby Melville) The global success of hit ...
