The history of sexually manipulative women from biblical times to today.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel, an ex-rock critic for The New Yorker, won controversial fame with her bestselling 1994 memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, which described how Prozac saved the precocious Harvard grad from suicide. Her second book, Bitch is a celebration of the defiant, rock & roll spirit of self-destructive women through the ages: Delilah, Amy Fisher, Princess Di, and hundreds more (including the awesomely reckless Wurtzel). There is no comprehensible central line of argument, perhaps because the author did her exhaustive research and writing on a speedy Kerouacesque drug binge that, by her own admission, sent her to rehab upon the book's conclusion. But Wurtzel has the remains of a fine mind: her insights are often sharp, sometimes bitchy, and always shameless as she zooms in a very few pages from The Oresteia to O.J. to her first crush on a fictional character (Heathcliff) to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, Richard Pryor, Chrissie Hynde, Leaving Las Vegas, Gone with the Wind, Sylvia Plath's "Daddy," Schindler's List, Oliver!, Carousel, and Andrea Dworkin. Most pop culture pundits incline to grandiose blather, but Wurtzel is punchy, and her quotes are more often apt than pretentious. Bitch is like a Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in a library, with frequent rampages through the film and music archives. Like rock music, Wurtzel's prose style lives for the moment. She glories in breaking rules to bits, is never giddier than when she's saying something shocking, and apparently has no moral code except self-expression--with the attitude volume knob cranked up to 11. --Tim Appelo
Praise for Prozac Nation:
"Sparkling, luminescent prose...by turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar, the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song...a powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back."
--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Thoughtful...Very brave...like all provocateurs, she poses questions which make you think."
--Vanity Fair
"Prozac Nation gives a view of every aspect of depression: the self-pity, the courage, the flashes of insight, the despair, and the endless, very moving struggle, simply, to live."
--Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behaviour, from biblical times through to trophy brides, political wives and dazzling depressives. In five powerful extended essays, the author links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Syliva Plath, Hillary Clinton, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth. She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas. She connects Margaux Hemingway's tragic suicide to those of Edie Sedgwick and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and society's complete obsession with badness: what's a girl to do. This book tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Delilah, Sharon Stone or Princess Diana, Wurtzel's bitchography cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, Bitch is the most searing feminist critique of contemporary gender relations to appear in the 1990s. Tiny mark to edge of page. Seller Inventory # 020972
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