Product Description:

Elizabeth Wertzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: 3.92 out of 5 stars

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- Honest Truth about Depression
I usually have a hard time getting through books, if something does not move me by the first couple of pages. I enjoyed this book, probably because there were a lot of situations, which I felt that I had been in. I think it is difficult for people who have never suffered from depression to understand this memoir; they might see the memoir as more annoying and monotonous than a depressed person would. I think this would be a good read for a person who knows someone suffering from depression; hopefully this book would shed some light on why depressed people do the things they do. As I was reflecting on how my experiences related to hers, I began to get a little depressed myself. However, overall I have to give Wurtzel credit for keeping my interest, up until the end, which I found a bit dry and ... Read More

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- Poetic honest and real
I guess that you can say that reading memoirs is a new thing of mine. After reading such great books as Wasted by Marya Hornbatcher and First Person Plural I picked up Prozac Nation, looking foreword to an interesting story about growing up with depression. What I got was such more. Prozac Nation is a personal tale of growing up with depression and not really knowing what it was at first. Because of her parents divorce, Elizabeth Wurtzel was used to going to therapy sessions but the thought of her having depression didn't come up to years later. The book mainly focuses on her college years, about Elizabeth's living with depression, how she dealt with it and how it effected her life. Prozac Nation is written with the honesty and closeness that you might find in a dairy. I agree with many of the ... Read More

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- An Interesting Memoir
I liked this book, but it isn't a pleasant book to read. The pain of being depressed is expressed well, and the reader can't help but be pulled in to her pain too. It was well written, although incohesive at times, and quite fascinating at times. Wurtzel's writing skill and vocabulary is impressive, but sometimes her choice of words grates on you, eclipsing the flow of the story and the ideas being expressed.

Wurtzel states in the Afterword, written in 1995, that it was her intention that the reader feel angered at her selfishness and total and absolute disregard for anyone but herself, and she has definitely achieved this result. The book does make her seem to be a spoiled child, as she lays on the floor in bookstores and screams until she gets what she wants -- which is usually attention ... Read More

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