How to murder your life : a memoir

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Label

How to murder your life : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Cat Marnell

Creator

• Marnell, Cat

Subject

• Drug addicts -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Fashion -- New York (State) | New York
• Marnell, Cat
• New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
• Clothing trade -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Nightlife -- New York (State) | New York
• Women drug addicts -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Young women -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America--and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a 'doctor shopper' who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything--anything--to sleep. This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school--and with a prescription for Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell's amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve. From the Conde Nast building (where she rides the elevator alongside Anna Wintour) to seedy nightclubs, from doctors' offices and mental hospitals, Marnell shows--like no one else can--what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can't say no. Combining lightning-rod subject matter and bold literary aspirations, How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography