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In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as amy fisher, hillary clinton, margaux hemingway, and. A memoir of a depressed, heavily medicated young woman who identifies with sylvia plath, anne sexton, and other tragic figuresand fantasizes about being profiled as a tragic suicide in new york magazine. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 368 pages and is available in paperback format. Born in 1967, wurtzel grew up in new york city, the precocious only child of divorced parents. Elizabeth lee wurtzel july 31, 1967 january 7, 2020 was an american writer and journalist, known for the confessional memoir prozac nation, which she published at the age of 27. Prozac nation is a collective cry for help, a generational status report on todays young people, who have come of age fully entrenched in the culture of divorce, economic instability, and aids. I read this book because a psychologist told me it would convince me psychiatric drugs such as prozac help people. With prozac nation, elizabeth wurtzel blew open the memoir. Prozac nation and major depression disorder prozac nation and major depression disorder raquel h. This undated photo provided by penguin random house shows the book cover of elizabeth wurtzels memoir, prozac nation. Reading this book is like being locked up with her, covering your ears or.
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