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Author: Gent, Peter
Title: North Dallas Forty
Publisher: Morrow, New York
Pages: 314 pp.
Date: 1973
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Escapism
Annotation:The story of the last eight days in a professional football player's career details the use of drugs by the team as stimulating and pain-killing agents as well as drug use by the players for escape from the harsh life of physical punishment that they live.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Norman, Gurney
Title: Divine Right's Trip: A Folk Tale
Publisher: Dial Press, New York
Pages: 302 pp.
Date: 1972
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Hallucinogenic experience
Annotation:A latter-day Kerouac tale of a hash-inspired vision which sets off a hallucinogenic trip across the U.S.A. in a "day-glow" painted VW van which ends with a "return to the earth" on a Kentucky farm.
Viewpoint towards drugs: positive.






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