Go Ask Alice (Reprint) (Paperback) by Anonymous

About the Book

In the 35 years since its original publication, this acclaimed, bestselling diary-format account of a teenage girl's harrowing descent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teens readers. This special anniversary edition includes a readers' group guide. Original.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Library Journal" An important book, this deserves as wide a readership as libraries can give it.

"School Library Journal" This novel in diary form powerfully depicts the confusions of adolescence. Its impact cannot be denied.

"The Boston Globe" ...a book that all teenagers and parents of teenagers should really read.

"The New York Times" [This] extraordinary work for teenagers is a document of horrifying reality and literary quality.