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Author: McCune, Ned
Title: The Gateway
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company, New York
Pages: 203 pp.
Date: 1973
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:A novel about a banker who goes on a methedrine bender on the weekend and slips over the edge of reality into paranoid hallucinations which end up in a violent finish in which he dies.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Michener, James
Title: The Drifters
Publisher: Random House, New York
Pages: 751 pp.
Date: 1971
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:A 60-year-old financier follows six young people around the world; one of them is Monica, the drug-addict daughter of a British ex-colonel. A survey of the youth scene, including, inevitably, drugs.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.






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