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Author: Herlihy, James Leo
Title: The Season of the Witch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
Pages: 384 pp.
Date: 1971
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Escapism; Social problems
Annotation:Told as the diary of a 17-year-old runaway searching for her father, this novel explores the use of drugs in the counterculture as escape from painful realities and social surroundings found untenable.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: MacDonald, John
Title: Dress Her in Indigo
Publisher: Lippincott, New York
Pages: 255 pp.
Date: 1971
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:Travis McGee, "salvage artist", follows a dead girl's tracks to the drug freak scene in Mexico, where she spent the last months of her life.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.






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