- homelessness, bad trips, psychiatric hospitals, child prostitution
A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Beatrice Sparks
- First published
- July 1977
- Pages
- 185
- Publisher
- Círculo de Lectores, Arrow, Prentice Hall
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780380005239
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“Yesterday I remember thinking I was the happiest person in the whole earth, in the whole galaxy, in all of God's creation.”
Beatrice Sparks was an American therapist and Mormon youth counselor who was known for producing books purporting to be the 'real diaries' of troubled teenagers. The books deal with topical issues such as drug abuse, Satanism, teenage pregnancy or AIDS, and are presented as cautionary tales. Although Sparks always presented herself as merely the discoverer and editor of the diaries, records at the U.S. Copyright Office show that in fact she was listed as the sole author for all but two of them. Sparks began working with teenagers in 1955, after attending the University of California at Los Angeles and Brigham Young University. She has worked as a music therapist at Utah State Mental Hospital
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