Prozac nation
1994
- mental health
- depressed persons
- biography
- young women
- women, united states, biography
- mentally ill, biography
- wurtzel, elizabeth -- mental health
- wurtzel, elizabeth
- depressed persons -- united states -- biography
- depressive disorder
The story
xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm
What it’s like
Raw, confessional first-person prose that reads like a late-night diary dragged into the open: sentences run long and breathless, flip sharply into sardonic self-mockery, then fall flat into bleak stillness. The sensory world is the inside of a head more than any room, though the pages keep returning to dim Manhattan apartments, Harvard dorm corridors, and the glare of institutional light, with the city's noise and cigarette smoke sitting heavy in the background. The voice is intimate and unvarnished, almost like overhearing someone talk to themselves at 3 a.m. Its vibe is anguished, candid, and restless, with flashes of wry humour undercutting the despair. It suits a solitary night, a long stretch of quiet reading, or a moment when you want company in dark feelings rather than comfort. Intensity is high in emotional terms: relentless depression, self-harm, drug use, and suicidal thinking appear on the page, described frankly, though gore and graphic violence are absent. It is written for readers who want an honest, unsparing account of depression from the inside, especially those drawn to memoir with a fierce, literary voice.
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