Just finished reading this short novel Anonymously written " Go Ask Alice "... very interesting insight about the life of a typical 15 year old teenager in her own words .. the novel is basically her journal entries......who starts abusing drugs thanks to the easy availability in high schools in America and inspite of unflinching family support she could not overcome it and finally it took her life....
ABOUT THE BOOK: source - wikipedia.com
Go Ask Alice is a controversial 1971 book about the life of a troubled teenage girl (the book covers three years of her life, from ages fourteen to sixteen) drug user that is considered a classic of American young adult literature. The book purports to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who died of a drug overdose in the late 1960s and is therefore presented as a testimony against drug use. Alice is not the protagonist's name; the actual diarist's name is never given in the book. A woman named Alice is mentioned briefly in one entry during the diarist's stay in Denver; she is a fellow addict the diarist meets on the street. Despite this, reviewers generally refer to the diarist as "Alice" for the sake of convenience.
It caused a sensation when published and remains in print as of 2008. Revelations about the book's origin have caused much doubt as to its authenticity and factual accounts, and the publishers have listed it as a work of fiction since at least the mid-late 1980s. Although it is still published under the byline "Anonymous," press interviews and copyright records suggest that it is largely or wholly the work of its purported editor, Beatrice Sparks.
Some of the days and dates referenced in the book put the timeline from 1968 until 1970.
The title is from the lyrics to the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit". Grace Slick wrote the song based on perceived drug references in the classic novel Alice In Wonderland. (On July 14 [page 36 of the 2006 edition], the writer says she "feel[s] like Alice in Wonderland" and "maybe Lewis G. Caroll was on drugs too".)
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