Prozac nation young and depressed in America

"Sparkling, luminescent prose. A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back."--New York Times "A book that became a cultural touchstone."--New Yorker Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an over diagnosed ge...

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Main Author: Wurtzel, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Edition: First Mariner books edition.
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Summary: "Sparkling, luminescent prose. A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back."--New York Times "A book that became a cultural touchstone."--New Yorker Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an over diagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. Her famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar"--
Item Description: Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Physical Description: xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780544960091
0544960092
Author Notes: Elizabeth Wurtzel is the bestselling author of Prozac Nation and Bitch. After graduating from Harvard College, she was the popular music critic for The New Yorker and New York magazine. Her articles have also appeared in Glamour, Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Seventeen, and the Oxford American. She lives in New York City.

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