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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.
A lyric from the song was used as the title of the 1971 novel Go Ask Alice. [33] [34] The song was used in episode 9 "The Blue Scorpion" of The Twilight Zone. [35] The song was used in The Game when Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) revisits his house after starting The Game and in the credits.
Go Ask Alice, the first of a number of books by Beatrice Sparks purported to be based on diaries of real teenagers, was originally presented by Sparks as the non-fictional diary of an anonymous teenage girl, [7] but was later classified by publishers as fiction. [8]
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]
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 ]
go ask alice is a great book my name is alex and I am 15 doing a book report about this book. but I am having trouble with it what is the the author's message in this book?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Written123 (talk • contribs) 16:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC) Fact or Crap? I have no idea. I really enjoied the book.
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 ...
In Go Ask Alice, the kids at the party play button, button, who's got the button, where the "button" is an LSD-spiked can of soda. The diarist gets the spiked can of soda, which leads to her subsequent drug binge.