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Prozac Nation
- 352 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1994
- 11 editions
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1 About this book
Prozac Nation is a memoir by American writer Elizabeth Wurtzel published in 1994. The book describes the author's experiences with atypical depression, her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer. Prozac is a trade name for the antidepressant fluoxetine. Wurtzel originally titled the book I Hate Myself and I Want To Die but her editor convinced her otherwise. It ultimately carried the subtitle Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir.
The book was adapted into a feature film, Prozac Nation (2001), starring Christina Ricci.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: mental health, a true life story, and self-improvement.
- Mental health
- Biography
- Women, united states
- People with mental illness, biography
- Biography & autobiography
- Self-help
- Personal Memoirs
- Depressed persons
2 About Elizabeth Wurtzel
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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