Hoffenberg byl plodným autorem, jehož dílo zkoumá složité lidské vztahy a společenské normy s ostrou inteligencí. Jeho styl se vyznačuje pronikavými dialogy a syrovým realismem, který odhaluje skryté touhy a frustrace svých postav. Hoffenberg se často zabýval tématy, jako je identita, odcizení a hledání smyslu v postválečném světě, čímž vytvořil díla, která jsou zároveň provokativní i hluboce lidská. Jeho psaní si zachovává jedinečnou schopnost zachytit ducha doby a zároveň promlouvat k univerzálním lidským zkušenostem.
"Guy Grand is the last of the big spenders, an eccentric billionaire determined to create disorder and willing to pay anything to prove his theory that there is nothing so degrading that someone won't do it for money. Guy Grand leads a life full of madcap schemes and practical jokes, all showing that everyone has their price and that he is willing to pay it."--Back cover.
In Texas during the 1950s, twelve-year-old Harold Stevens spends his summer catfishing and hunting with his closest friend C.K., a twenty-three-year-old Black man who introduces Harold to Old Nail--an ex-con involved in deadly rituals
Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy -- a satire of Voltaire's Candide -- chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world.