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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Paperback
Biographies GeneralMental Health
Publisher Price: $22.99
ISBN13: 9780544960091
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Jun 6 2017
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword
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 YorkerElizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. Her famous coming-of-age memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era, a landmark work of mental health literature for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.
Raw, funny, and relentlessly honest, Wurtzel's account defined depression for a generation.
- Unflinching Portrait of Depression: Goes beyond diagnosis to explore the black waves, the blankness, and the sheer exhaustion of living with clinical depression.
- Life on Prozac: A sharp, witty look at a life managed by Prozac, Lithium, and Xanax, and the search for a cure in a bottle.
- A Gen X Cultural Touchstone: Set against a backdrop of Kurt Cobain and pierced tongues, this is the book that gave a voice to the overdiagnosed, alienated, and brilliantly alive generation of the 90s.
- Witty, Literary Prose: For readers of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Girl, Interrupted, this is a fiercely intelligent and darkly funny memoir that sparkles with luminescent prose.
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