Go Ask Alice (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Go Ask Alice 2 weeks ago.

• January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful -- and as timely -- today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Go Ask Alice 2 weeks ago.

• Added a contributor: Beatrice Sparks: (Primary Author)

Lance G edited the errata of Go Ask Alice 2 weeks ago.

• The book, purported to be a teenager's diary, focuses heavily on detailed descriptions of drugs and their harmful effects, yet very little on things more typical of a teenage girl's diary, such as relationships and gossip.

  For this and other reasons, the book is believed to be a work of fiction despite the editor/author's claims (publishers usually market newer editions of it as fiction).

  http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp

Lance G edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Go Ask Alice 2 weeks ago.

• Added: A false story of drug abuse made up by a right-wing propagandist to scare teens who don't know much about drugs.

Timothy Gray approved Lance G’s request to change the contributors of Go Ask Alice 3 weeks ago.

• Edited a contributor: Beatrice Sparks: Sole copyright holder of the book, listed as the author in the U.S. Copyright Office's records. (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Linda Glovach: A November 5, 1998 New York Times Book Review refers to her as "one of the 'preparers' -- let's call them forgers -- of Go Ask Alice." (Author)
• Removed a contributor: James Jennings: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray edited the language of an edition set of Go Ask Alice 3 weeks ago.

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Lance G edited the errata of Go Ask Alice 3 weeks ago.

• The book, purported to be a teenager's diary, focuses heavily on detailed descriptions of drugs and their harmful effects, yet very little on things more typical of a teenage girl's diary, such as relationships and gossip.

  For this and other reasons, the book is believed to be a work of fiction despite the editor/author's claims.claims (publishers usually market newer editions of it as fiction).

Lance G edited the errata of Go Ask Alice 3 weeks ago.

• The book, purported to be a teenager's diary, focuses heavily on detailed descriptions of drugs and their harmful effects, yet very little on things more typical of a teenage girl's diary, such as relationships and gossip.

  For this and other reasons, the book is believed to be a work of fiction despite the editor/author's claims.

Lance G edited the contributors of Go Ask Alice 3 weeks ago.

• Edited a contributor: Beatrice Sparks: Sole copyright holder of the book, listed as the author in the U.S. Copyright Office's records. (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Linda Glovach: A November 5, 1998 New York Times Book Review refers to her as "one of the 'preparers' -- let's call them forgers -- of Go Ask Alice." (Author)
• Removed a contributor: James Jennings: (Primary Author)

Lance G edited the contributors of Go Ask Alice 3 weeks ago.

• Edited a contributor: Beatrice Sparks: Sole copyright holder of the book, listed as the author in the U.S. Copyright Office's records. (EditorAuthor)