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Author: Steward, Ramona
Title: The Possession of Joel Delaney
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston, Massachusetts
Pages: 279 pp.
Date: 1970
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Hallucinogenic experience
Annotation:The witchcraft possession of Joel Delaney by a spirit, Tonio, after an LSD experience, criss-crosses social and drug themes in a story of psychological complexity.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Thompson, Hunter
Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Publisher: Random House, New York
Pages: 231 pp.
Date: 1971
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Reality
Annotation:This fictionalized story of a journalist's trip to Las Vegas on a variety of uppers, downers, and hallucinogenics provides a distortion screen on which the bizarre world of gamblers and tourists is projected with impressively vivid literary technique.
Viewpoint towards drugs: neutral.






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