A memoir of sex, drugs, and depression indicts an overmedicated America as it chronicles the fortunes of a Harvard educated child of divorce who lived in the fast lane as a music critic, always fighting her chronic depression[...]
The bestselling author of "Prozac Nation, Bitch," and "More, Now, Again" returns with astute advice for young women on how to live a full and satisfying life.[...]
No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel.
"Bitch" is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Begi[...]
An account, both harrowing and amusing, of the author's dependence on Prozac, prescribed for her after a series of suicide attempts and breakdowns. She describes her experiences and her determination to get herself off medication.[...]
The history of sexually manipulative women from biblical times to today.
Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, "Prozac Nation, " to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.
For all of her professional success, Wurtzel fel[...]
"A book that became a cultural touchstone." -- "The New Yorker"
Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. In this famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs[...]
"The defining characteristic of America is our fanaticism: We dream big, we think large, we create grandeur..."
And we created Elizabeth Wurtzel: A celebrated writer who has lent her voice to depression, to women scorned, to addiction, and now to the Constitution of our great states. True to for[...]