More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Nov 2007 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respect—everything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness.

For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she'd held, and way too much weight. She couldn't write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressants—Wurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her sugar...the sweetness in the days that have none. Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more...

More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzel's descent into drug addiction. It is also a survival story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget.

Ratings and reviews

a addict to find a litle good feeling allthough it is artificial that feeling is fake and very expensive. You loose your good health and all you have ,i guess I have snored a big house in my life or a sportscar and then also i had to finance the addiction from my exhusband also it was hard and I am glad that this book and her other book the Prozac generation ,that these books helped me to even laugh when i recognised the same emotions and thoughts of this wonderfull writer. Too bad no one has even been thinking to make a movie out of it ....but then again it is not really fit to be a movie because her words are real and honest and i loved to read this book from her ,she is very smart and its her way of telling her story that gives me and so much other people hope that we all can find our way to be happy dispite it all .Great writer and wonderfull books to read !

THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME.HER WRITING FLOWS BETTER in this book them any of her past or present. Also being A book hound ONCE YOU OPEN THE BOOK IT CAN'T BE CLOSED TILL, THE END THEN YOU GO READ IT AGAIN.

Picked this book up at a thrift store for 99 cents. From the time I started reading I couldn't put this book down. I love it when an author is so descriptive that I can just picture everything as I'm reading and Elizabeth definitely does it. Recommended this book to my friends for sure!

About the author

Elizabeth Wurtzel is the author of the bestselling books Prozac Nation, Bitch, and More, Now, Again. She graduated from Harvard and her work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, New York, The Guardian, and The Oxford American. Wurtzel died in 2020 at the age of fifty-two.