Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

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 Yorker

Elizabeth 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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel received the Rolling Stone College Journalism Prize in 1986 after graduating from Harvard College. She was a music reviewer for The New Yorker and New York, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications. She lives in New York City and is the author of the best-selling books Prozac Nation and Bitch: In Honor of Tough Women. In 2001, Christina Ricci and Jessica Lange will star in the film Prozac Nation.