Another Day in Paradise (novel)

"Another Day in Paradise" is a novel by Eddie Little published in 1997. Set in the early 70s, it tells the story of the protagonist, a fourteen-year-old runaway named Bobbie, transforming from a meth addict and amateur thief to a heroin addict and accomplished safe-cracker, with the help of his mentor Mel.

Plot summary

At age 13, Bobbie leaves the violent, abusive home where he was raised, and this book details his following year. He has an older girlfriend, carries a gun, takes drugs, and is on an ever-tightening spiral to hell, his crimes escalating until they include murder. The plot, which highlights Bobbie's increasing dependence on the highs of violence, is not pointless but instead emphasizes a frightening reality. For Bobbie, read Little. He's been there, and his graphic story is written with an immediacy and realism that will make normal thinking people cringe and parents anxious to protect their children from the harshness in which some youth live.

Controversy

On January 27, 2006, in the Moscow-based alternative newspaper "the eXile", essayist John Dolan leveled charges of plagiarism against James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, accusing him of lifting material from Another Day in Paradise and Steel Toes, both written by the late drug-addict/author Eddie Little. [http://www.exile.ru/2006-January-27/freys_fall.html] Neither Frey, nor his publisher Random House, have addressed the allegations of plagiarism.

References

*cite book | title=Another Day in Paradise | last=Little | first=Eddie | authorlink=Eddie Little | publisher=G P Putnam's | location= | edition= | date=Jan 1998 | id=ISBN 0670872172
* [http://exile.ru/167/167101802.html "the eXile" review (5/2003)]