ESCAPE FROM NOWHERE

by Jeanette Eyerly ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 14, 1969

Mother drinks, father decamps on business, big sister elopes, and what's a nice overlooked girl to do when, to top it off, the first interesting, interested boy evaporates? Today, she takes dope. Especially if, like Carla, she's annexed (inexplicably) by Dexter Smith, senior big wheel who's now dealing in drugs. Carla sticks to pot (and finds it adhesive if not addictive), but Dexter improvises a medley of highs and lows until he freaks out. . . perhaps forever. Meanwhile Carla, implicated, has been put on probation, which gives her family a chance to shape up too; there's even a tardy, much-traveled letter from that boy. Like Dexter's reefers in a Camel wrapper, this is hot stuff in a standard package. And dreary. (For a more convincing caution, try Maia Wojciechowska's Tuned Out.)

Pub Date: March 14, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION