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Author: Pynchon, Thomas
Title: V, a Novel
Publisher: Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pages: 492 pp.
Date: 1963
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Hallucinogenic experience
Annotation:At a level of absurdity and distortion suggesting drug hallucination, this novel caroms through the experiences of a schlemiel named Benny Profane and an adventurer named Stencil, who is searching for the significance of the identity of "V".
Viewpoint towards drugs: positive.




Author: Salas, Floyd
Title: What Now My Love
Publisher: Grove, New York
Pages: 154 pp.
Date: 1969
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:A realistic story of the Mexican-American drug culture told through two men and a woman on the run from a narcotics raid in San Francisco in which a federal narcotics agent was killed.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.






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