<![CDATA[Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women]]>

false <![CDATA[Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172469847m/179512.jpg 179512 6 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 3358344 1998 Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women total:1109|5:155|4:303|3:377|2:193|1:81| 1109 3585 1680 132 1 4 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 20:06:16 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 19:36:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 13 12:38:55 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 23 18:25:46 -0800 2008 More, Now, Again, which basically outlines her breakdown while writing this book.

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