car Alice n’existe tout simplement pas.

Le titre original est quand même « Go Ask Alice » publié en 1971. Le Wiki anglais ne cache pas que ce prénom n’est jamais donné dans le livre mais donne quand même quelques indications intéressantes ...

« The novel, whose title was taken from a line in the Grace Slick —penned Jefferson Airplane song »White Rabbit« ( »go ask Alice / when she’s ten feet tall« ), is presented as an anti-drug testimonial. The diarist’s name is never given in the book. »

Dans la chanson de Jefferson Airplane (parue en 1967, chantée à Woodstock en 1969), Alice n’est autre qu’une allusion à Alice aux pays des merveilles
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5q1l2_jefferson-airplane-white-rabbit_music#.URzhDPJfg1-

Journal intime ou manifeste anti-drogue ?

« Just Say No » was an advertising campaign, part of the U.S. « War on Drugs », ...
The campaign emerged from a substance abuse prevention program supported by the National Institutes of Health, pioneered in the 1970s by University of Houston Social Psychology Professor Richard I. Evans.

Un Internaute commente ce livre sur un site et dit :

This was written by Beatrice Sparks as propaganda for her « Just Say NO » anti-drugs campaign. It contains every single cliche about how making friends with anyone whose social life doesn’t involve Christian youth clubs will inevitably lead to the sort of parties where teenagers can drink beer and have a puff of a joint and it is downhill all the way from there.

Drugs lead to getting in with a bad crowd, having sex, stealing, dealing, prostitution, homelessness and insanity ! Only the pastor can save her. But no, once she is persuaded to go home, those good old non-drug taking, Christian hometown folks are visiting the sins of the daughter on the parents with social isolation and threats, so eventually they move to a new town. A new beginning, nah... we all know you can’t escape drugs when you start on the slippery slope of that first puff and it will end badly.

An overdose, death. Inevitably... predictably.

You’d think that the book would be much praised by the sort of ultra-conservative parents who actually believe in this kind of crap, but no, every year it makes the list of the most-challenged books. So Nancy Reagan didn’t succeed with this particular element of her campaign.

Il semble y avoir une thématique moraliste dans tous les ouvrages de Béatrice Sparks, sa foi et son activisme mormon n’y sont probablement pas étrangers ...