Prozac nation : young and depressed in America / Elizabeth Wurtzel.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Riverhead Books, c1995.Description: 368 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 1573225126
- 9781573225120
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Wurtzel, E. W971 | Available | 33111007455757 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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, 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 .
Originally published: Boson: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Prologue: I hate myself and I want to die -- Full of promise -- Secret life -- Love kills -- Broken -- Black wave -- Happy pills -- Drinking in Dallas -- Space, time, and motions -- Deep down -- Blank girl -- Good morning heartache -- Accidental blowjob -- Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live -- Think of pretty things -- Epilogue: Prozac nation -- Afterword (1995) -- Acknowledgments.
Painful, poignant, and ultimately triumphant, Prozac Nation is Elizabeth Wurtzel's catharsis--a cry of rage at the chronic depression which has dominated most of her young life. "A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression".