The Resource How to murder your life : a memoir, Cat Marnell
How to murder your life : a memoir, Cat Marnell
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The item How to murder your life : a memoir, Cat Marnell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item How to murder your life : a memoir, Cat Marnell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- "From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 374 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476752273
- Label
- How to murder your life : a memoir
- Title
- How to murder your life
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Cat Marnell
- Subject
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Clothing trade -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Drug addicts -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Fashion -- New York (State) | New York
- Marnell, Cat
- Autobiographies
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- 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.) -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From Cat Marnell, 'New York's enfant terrible' (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Marnell, Cat
- Dewey number
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- 362.29/9092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV5805.M3683
- LC item number
- A3 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Marnell, Cat
- Drug addicts
- Women drug addicts
- Young women
- Clothing trade
- Fashion
- Nightlife
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Label
- How to murder your life : a memoir, Cat Marnell
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 954271053
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 374 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476752273
- Lccn
- 2016052226
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- How to murder your life : a memoir, Cat Marnell
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 954271053
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 374 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476752273
- Lccn
- 2016052226
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Clothing trade -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Drug addicts -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Fashion -- New York (State) | New York
- Marnell, Cat
- Autobiographies
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- 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.) -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
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