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"Elizabeth, a recovering addict of many substances, thinks ritalin is safe and begins to snort it. She becomes isolated, obsessive and delusional. She is afraid of commitment, the world, but ultimately herself. She gives a detailed look into a world we rarely are exposed to, that of a middle class white woman in her mid twenties, while being extremely smart still is sucked into a world that only leads to the gutter both literally and physically."
Katy, Resident Scholar
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"Elizabeth Wurtzel author of "Prozac Nation," and "Bitch," is back with "More, Now, Again," a brutally honest descent into her life of drug addiction. With her second novel pass due and her personal life spiralling downward Elizabeth is prescribed ritalin to help her forcus and improve the effects of antidepressants. The ritalin worked and worked and worked that soon she began snorting it, then cocaine, then more ritalin, then more cocaine, then anything that she could get that would help her "work" and escape reality. "
stacy, Resident Scholar
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"Elizabeth Wurtzel is a woman in her late twenties to thirties. She is a succesful writer having just finished her first noevl 'Prozac Nation'. Struggeling with depression as a young child, she has had a life full of up's and downs. This book is about her life during the time of her writing her second novel and all the struggle she faces during this period. She has been proscribed 'Ritlin' by her Doctor as a way to help her cope with her depression and completeing her second novel and was mainly given to her because of the past addictions she has had with drugs. But things turn out differently and Elizabeth finds her self deeper in drugs than she thought she would ever be. From snorting up to 40 pills a day and taking on a cocaine habbit, Elizabeth is left with a huge drug habbit, leading herself into a rehabilitation hospital fighting her addiction. The story goes on with Elizabeth fighting off her drugs, dealing with life inside a hospital, a new guy in her life which leads to problems of intimacy and neediness from being alone. She struggles with her career and completeing her last book and gets to a point where she has just about lost everything thats anything to her. "
Natalie, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- drugs
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- Jew
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 ()
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- rude people
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- eccentric personalities
- parody
- sarcastic/sardonic
- surreal
- metaphorical
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- licking
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
- decency
- selfishness
- religion
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 51%-75% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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