Go Ask Alice
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4.2 • 121 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale.
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.
Customer Reviews
This is a story that endures...
I have read & loved this book since I was a teenager & it still moves me. I was surprised to see that the mystery of “Anonymous” has been solved but I still read it as the words of a teenager who, like me, struggled with many of the same feelings that were written in her diary. However, I found myself laughing at her plans to “roll her hair in orange cans” & “having to wait 3-4 days for pictures to be returned”.
There’s been an effort to ban “Go Ask Alice” because it’s thought to be overly graphic and a misleading depiction of drug use. While I agree it’s graphic but to me, it’s a sad story of a teenager struggling to fit in. Who desires to be accepted but sees herself as awkward & insignificant. To me, this is a moving story of a girl w/ a huge heart & a deep sense of empathy. She tells a story of heart break & triumph. I don’t know or care if her description of her drug experiences are accurate, because this book is so much more than that.
Amazing !
I've loved this book since high school , great read . Very real.
Go ask Alice
Ce livre arrive à capturer une idée générale de ce que peux vivre un jeune face à la drogue, même encore aujourd’hui.