"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 .
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 .
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Publisher:
New York :, Riverhead Books,, 1995
Edition:
First Riverhead trade paperback edition
ISBN:
9781573225120
Branch Call Number:
921 WUR
Characteristics:
x, 368 pages ; 21 cm
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Add a Commentthoroughly exhausting to read, but definitely worth reading.
I actually recommended the library order this book after I read More, Now, Again, also by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
I can't say I was absolutely pleased. Halfway through I decided this could be said to be "Poetic Whining." Though in many instances, I still understand the meaning of her reasons to write the way she did and am grateful for her honesty.