Go Ask Alice
The strong, painfully honest, nakedly candid and true story of a 15-year-old girl's experiences with drugs. Winner of the Christopher Award. "An extraordinary work . . . a document of horrifying reality."--The New York Times.
The strong, painfully honest, nakedly candid and true story of a 15-year-old girl's experiences with drugs. Winner of the Christopher Award. "An extraordinary work . . . a document of horrifying reality."--The New York Times.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380005239 (0380005239)
Publish date: September 1st 1991
Publisher: Avon Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Classics,
Literature,
Realistic Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Banned Books,
Psychology,
High School,
Diary
by Anonymous I read this Classic many years ago, but had forgotten most of it so tried a sample and it held my interest enough to pay the 1.99 Kindle price so I could keep going, though I hadn't yet got to the 'meat' of the story. It's about an ordinary young girl in America who has a lot of ins...
I don't know what to say about this book. I don't know how I feel about this book. This book was haunting. It was horrifying. It was sad. It was heartbreaking. This is basically a handbook for what not to do when you're a teenager. This poor girl. I can't even pretend to imagine what it wa...
This is one of those books that I felt like everyone had read as a teenager except me, and I had no clue what it was even about. You know, given the title and the fact that I'm familiar with the song that uses the same reference, I really ought to have known. I have to admit that this was kind o...
Raw. So real that you want to jump into the story and help her. I connect with her on so many levels with my history of addiction. I was older than her though, she was only 15, but a lot of the emotions and general events are similar. There is no happy ending. This is not some mediocre story about ...
I read this many years ago as a young teenager, and I'm sure I still have my paperback copy of this book boxed up somewhere. Go Ask Alice is about a teenage girl who gets addicted to drugs. It is written in the form of her diary, and as a teenager myself at the time, it was impossible not to put m...
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