Drug Themes in Fiction/Annotated Bibliography-Rock 'n Roll Flower Children of the 1960's
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ROCK 'n ROLL FLOWER CHILDREN OF THE 1960's
Works (not listed in original)
| Author: | Coles, Robert |
| Title: | The Grass Pipe |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Pages: | 112 pp. |
| Date: | 1969 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Social problems |
| Annotation:This short novel, aimed at a juvenile audience, tells the experiences of three boys who decide to smoke marijuana during their freshman year in high school. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |
| Author: | Matthiessen, Peter |
| Title: | At Play in the Fields of the Lord |
| Publisher: | Random House, New York |
| Pages: | 373 pp. |
| Date: | 1965 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Perception |
| Annotation:In a story about missionaries in the Amazon, Matthiessen incorporates a detailed study of the South American Indians' use of a drug called "ayahausca", evidently in the hallucinogen family. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: neutral. | |
| Author: | Pynchon, Thomas |
| Title: | V, a Novel |
| Publisher: | Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Pages: | 492 pp. |
| Date: | 1963 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Hallucinogenic experience |
| Annotation:At a level of absurdity and distortion suggesting drug hallucination, this novel caroms through the experiences of a schlemiel named Benny Profane and an adventurer named Stencil, who is searching for the significance of the identity of "V". | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: positive. | |
| Author: | Salas, Floyd |
| Title: | What Now My Love |
| Publisher: | Grove, New York |
| Pages: | 154 pp. |
| Date: | 1969 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Social problems |
| Annotation:A realistic story of the Mexican-American drug culture told through two men and a woman on the run from a narcotics raid in San Francisco in which a federal narcotics agent was killed. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |
| Author: | Susann, Jacqueline |
| Title: | Valley of the Dolls |
| Publisher: | Bernard Geis Associates, New York |
| Pages: | 442 pp. |
| Date: | 1966 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Escapism |
| Annotation:A novel about three women, their careers, their sex lives, and their dependence upon pills to get them through their bleak existences—a popular look into "middle class" drug abuse. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |
| Author: | Wojciechowska, Maia |
| Title: | Tuned Out |
| Publisher: | Harper and Row, New York |
| Pages: | 125 pp. |
| Date: | 1968 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Social problems |
| Annotation:A high school boy has a disillusioning and terrifying summer vacation when his older brother returns from college, no longer an idol, but deeply into drugs and related problems. | |
| Viewpoint towards drugs: negative. | |