From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic ( The New York Times ) Memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.
Combining all the intoxicating intrigue of a thriller and yet all the sobering pathos of a gifted writer\'s true-life journey to recover her former health, happiness, ambitions, and identity ( Harper\'s Bazaar ), How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary..
From the Cond Nast building to seedy nightclubs, from doctors\' offices and mental hospitals, Marnell treads a knife edge between glamorizing her own despair and rendering it with savage honesty....with the skill of a pulp novelist ( The New York Times Book Review ) what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can\'t say no .
We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve.
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 .
It begins at a posh New England prep school--and with a prescription for the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin.
This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner.
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.
She was a prescription drug addict.
But she hid a secret life.
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.
From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic ( The New York Times ) Memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs
