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Author: Susann, Jacqueline
Title: Valley of the Dolls
Publisher: Bernard Geis Associates, New York
Pages: 442 pp.
Date: 1966
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Escapism
Annotation:A novel about three women, their careers, their sex lives, and their dependence upon pills to get them through their bleak existences—a popular look into "middle class" drug abuse.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Wojciechowska, Maia
Title: Tuned Out
Publisher: Harper and Row, New York
Pages: 125 pp.
Date: 1968
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:A high school boy has a disillusioning and terrifying summer vacation when his older brother returns from college, no longer an idol, but deeply into drugs and related problems.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.


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