Smack was been adapted as a stage play and performed by the Oxford Stage Company and nominated in England for the Equity Award for the Best Show for Children and Young People in 1998. The novel is being adapted for a three-part TV movie currently under production. Many of Burgess's earlier novels are difficult to obtain in the United States and some are out of print. Burning Issy, a novel set in the seventeenth century, focuses on a young girl who befriends both white and black witches and is imprisoned herself as a witch. Another book by Burgess about teenagers living on the street is The Baby and Fly Pie, a futuristic novel about three street kids who intercept the kidnapping of the infant of a wealthy family and must decide what to do. Other books about drug abuse include Go Ask Alice (1971), the supposed...