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Covers soiled, staples of binding a bit rusty, price stamp to front cover. The incessant whining from this privileged, white, harvardeducated girl drove me crazy. The book chronicles her battle with depression as a college undergraduate and her eventual treatment with the medication prozac. Elizabeth wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are kurt cobain, xanax, and pierced tongues. Nathan englander, nicole krauss among authors in town this. She graduated from her medical school with her medical degree in 2010. The new yorkerelizabeth wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are kurt cobain, xanax, and pierced tongues. Prozac nation author elizabeth wurtzel, whose openbook memoir of depression and drug addiction paved the way for a confessional writing. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the white house green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because were all so bummed out. Prozac nation 1995 read online free book by elizabeth. Prozac nation author elizabeth wurtzel dead at 52 wvii. He called the book dysfunctional, characterized the author as an overage adolescent, and concluded, sorry. Prozac nation book snoisle libraries bibliocommons.
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Every page i turned, i wanted to slap this girl even more than the last. She is a harvard and yale law school graduate whose work has appeared in such publications as the new yorker, new york, the guardian, and the oxford american. Lying in bed for a few days wouldnt help enact the kind of personality overhaul it would take to pull me away from my wellestablished pattern of mapping out escape routes, clinging to them like vines, and then watching as these lifeless forces suddenly pushed me away, though i continued to hold on for dear life. Ive read it years ago and it left a strong impression. 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. Elizabeth lee wurtzel is one of the very good writers and the journalists as well.
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