- Fiction, Witchcraft, Satanism, Suicide
Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything. He was wrong. When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and the occult, he finds himself in over his head and doing things he never thought possible. Fascinated by the dark arts and in love with a dangerous girl, Jay falls deeper and deeper into a life he no longer recognizes...and sees no way out.
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Grave, earnest, unpretentious and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Beatrice Sparks
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- anonomous, Times Books, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671667474
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“For two weeks now my Sunday school teacher and my scout master and everybody else have been on my ass to keep a journal.”
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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