One night Shelia and her new boyfriend introduce the girls to heroin and brutally rape them while they are under the influence of the drug. [55]) Nilsen concluded, "The question of how much of Go Ask Alice was written by the real Alice and how much by Beatrice Sparks can only be conjectured. I wanted the characters to triumph, and was saddened by how quickly and suddenly it became obvious that they would not. Dust jacket of Prentice Hall first edition, 1971, Controversies involving other works by Sparks, Treatment of book as fiction and non-fiction, Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets, any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental, "Just Say 'Uh-Oh': Two New Drug Novels, and the Book That Established the Genre", "Reminiscing: One Perspective on ALAN's Beginnings", "Go Ask Alice: Was Go Ask Alice the Real-Life Diary of a Teenage Girl?

The story is quiet, sensual, and tragic. The diarist unwittingly ingests LSD and has an intense and pleasurable trip.

One day a stranger challenges her. [11] Alleen Pace Nilsen wrote that in 1973, Go Ask Alice was "the book that teens wanted to read and that adults wanted to censor" and that the censors "felt the book did more to glorify sex and drugs than to frighten kids away from them. However, the odds are stacked against them: their countries are bitter enemies and are currently embroiled in a bloody war, which means that the young couple’s blossoming relationship is doomed from the start.

The Girl Who Played Go was a major critical and commercial success: it has won a number of literary awards, including France’s Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, and has been translated into over 30 languages. Start by marking “The Girl Who Played Go” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. features of the game -� enough to understand why Go is such a powerful metaphor for the It reminds me of a Jane Austen novel, in that the unspoken interactions between the two Go players are filled with longing.
Although I am very fond of this book, it wasn't quite as good as the first one, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . This book was a delightful surprise for me. [35][36][36] The 1973 television film based on the book heightened reader interest,[36] and librarians reported having to order additional copies of the book each time the film was broadcast. However, the odds are stacked against them: their countries are bitter enemies and are currently embroiled in a bloody war, which means that the young couple’s blossoming relationship is doomed from the start.

For he is a Japanese soldier, sent to I moved away and never played again until recently. This story is set during a brutal time in Chinese history.

The manuscript that later became Go Ask Alice was initially prepared for publication by Beatrice Sparks, a Mormon therapist and youth counselor then in her early 50s, who had previously done various forms of writing. [3] The actual number of readers probably surpassed the sales figures, as library copies and even personal copies were likely circulated to more than one reader. (WHAT A SLUT!!!!!!!!) [12] In 1976, a stage play of the same name, written by Frank Shiras and based on the book, was also published. The Girl Who Played Go was a major critical and commercial success: it has won a number of literary awards, including France’s Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, and has been translated into over 30 languages. Slick's song is understood as using Carroll's story as a metaphor for a drug experience.[15][16]. [3] As of 2011, a UK paperback edition published and marketed by Arrow Books contained the statement "This Is Alice's True Story" on the front cover.

The chapters are very short, ~2-3 pages each, are written in first-person narration, and alternate between the perspectives of the 2 main characters. [12] Also among the cast were Robert Carradine, Mackenzie Phillips, and Charles Martin Smith.

Manchuria has been occupied by the Japanese for several years as the story opens, but there is an active insurgency movement. Still, it's the Chinese girl who really comes alive and whose inner life is explored in detail. [22], Go Ask Alice has been a frequent target of censorship challenges due to its inclusion of profanity and references to runaways, drugs, sex and rape. With Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson. It is a sexual coming of age tale as well as an unusual love story. Ultimately she extracts Bjurman’s promise that he will permit her access to her finances and work to have her declared legally competent. Although Go Ask Alice has been credited to an anonymous author since its publication, and was originally promoted as the real, albeit edited, diary of a real teenage girl, over time the book has come to be regarded by researchers as a fake memoir written by Beatrice Sparks,[2][3][4][5][6][10][26] possibly with the help of one or more co-authors. salvation. Shan Sa is a French author born in Beijing in 1972. There are moments when the forward movement seems to slump. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including love, honor and war.

Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc. [13] The play has been produced by various high school and community theatre groups.[69][70][71][72]. The 2 main characters are a 16-year old Machurian girl who is strong-willed and free-spirited and excels at the strategy-based game of go, and a Japanese soldier who plays go against this girl while in disguise as a Chinese citizen. [26] Although Sparks was typically listed on these books as editor or preparer, the number of similar books that Sparks published, making her "arguably the most prolific Anonymous author in publishing",[56] fueled suspicions that she wrote Go Ask Alice. not so explicitly structured around the theme of a small battle, like chess, that has it�s