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Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism. Attributed to "Anonymous", the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited actual diary of the unnamed teenage protagonist.
Anonymous (actually Beatrice Sparks), Go Ask Alice, Prentice-Hall (1971), was originally presented as being the real diary of an anonymous teenage girl who died of a drug overdose in the late 1960s. Sparks later became known for producing several additional books purporting to be the "real diaries" of troubled teenagers. [20]
Her first book, Go Ask Alice, was published under the byline "Anonymous" in 1971 and became a bestseller with several million copies sold. [2] The book was presented as the diary of an unnamed teenage girl who became involved in drugs and underage sex, vowed to clean up, but then died from an overdose a few weeks after her final diary entry. [7]
Fifty years after its publication, this literary fraud about a drug-addled girl is still on the shelves. Can its damaging lies about addiction ever be undone?
Publishing this fall from Scholastic Press, and aimed at readers in grades 3-7, the book is a novelization of Anne Frank’s life before she went into hiding when the Nazis occupied the ...
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These books, the most well-known of which is Go Ask Alice, serve as cautionary tales. [3] According to a book written by Barrett's brother Scott (A Place in the Sun: The Truth Behind Jay's Journal) and interviews with the family, Sparks used 21 entries of 212 total from Barrett's actual journal. The other entries were fictional, with Sparks ...
The actress and New York Times bestselling memoirist returns with a new book about the empowerment that comes from calling out society's callous and short-sighted expectations of women as they age.