CHOCOLATE FEVER

by Robert Smith ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1972

Henry Green's insatiable appetite for chocolate induces a raging case of chocolate fever (big brown spots all over) and a correspondingly spotty fantasy in which he runs away from the hospital, escapes from a group of bullies by playing on their fears of contagion, hitches a ride with a sympathetic truck driver (being black he knows what it is to be stared at) and foils a hijacking. This last earns him an introduction to Alfred ""Sugar"" Cane the candy manufacturer (who suffered from chocolate fever himself); Cane dispenses an antidote (vanilla pills) and advice (""We can't have everything we want every time we want it""), but what we really wanted was a stow that lived up to the promise of the original idea.

Pub Date: April 1, 1972

ISBN: 0142405957

Page Count: -

Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION