{"product_id":"candy-darling-dreamer-icon-superstar","title":"Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar","description":"“MONUMENTAL.” (The New Yorker) • “HEROIC.” (The New York Times Book Review ) • “THRILLING.” (Los Angeles Times) • “PRISMATIC.” (The Atlantic)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography\u003cbr\u003eA Finalist for the the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eA Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NBC New York, Kirkus Reviews, The Brooklyn Public Library\u003cbr\u003eA Must-Read: Nylon, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Ms., San Francisco Chronicle, The Bay Area Reporter, Town \u0026amp; Country, InsideHook, W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou must always be yourself no matter what the price . . . Don’t dare destroy your passion for the sake of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York’s early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol’s films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max’s Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: “I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me.” Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, just as conversations about gender and identity were beginning to enter the broader culture. She never knew it, but she changed the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrimming with all the fizz and wildness of New York in the 1960s and ’70s, this is the first biography of this extraordinary figure―an unintentional pioneer who became an icon. Cynthia Carr’s Candy Darling is packed with tales of luminaries, gossip, and meticulous research, laced with Candy’s words and her friends’ recollections, and signals Candy’s long-overdue return to the spotlight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes 16 pages of color photographs","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851091984610,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-9.90-1358","price":40.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_392_TXVbGfDlp.jpg?v=1780364434","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/candy-darling-dreamer-icon-superstar","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}