Prozac Nation
"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...
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"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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781573225120 (1573225126)
Publish date: October 1st 1995
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
This book enlightened me on depression. Now I'm more aware of what it means to be depressed. The book is well written, BUT some events are too details that it did not appeal to me.
a good book if you want insight of depression and the world of prozac. i really enjoyed the book and also the movie.
a good book if you want insight of depression and the world of prozac. i really enjoyed the book and also the movie.
This book is some heavy reading. I want to say I enjoyed it but that just doesn't seem like the right word. Appreciated it is better I think. The way Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote this book makes it seem like she is just sitting beside you telling you her story. Her voice is an easy one to read. As someon...
Here's the thing: I don't know how to rate this. I loved it in college, when I was going through an emotional crisis so severe that I had to drop out, but upon rereads and further reflection, I realize that this book sort of suffered from "wrong candidate, right time."Wurtzel's description of depres...
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