03090cam a2200337 4500 759202910 TxAuBib 20170309120000.0 161114s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016052226 9781476752273 hardback $26.99 1476752273 hardback $26.99 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT IMmBT TxGR TxAuBib Marnell, Cat, author How to murder your life. How to murder your life [Book] : a memoir / Cat Marnell. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. 374 pages ; 24 cm. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20170309. Marnell, Cat. Drug addicts New York (State) New York Biography. Women drug addicts New York (State) New York Biography. Young women New York (State) New York Biography. Clothing trade New York (State) New York Biography. Fashion New York (State) New York. Nightlife New York (State) New York. New York (N.Y) Social life and customs. New York (N.Y) Biography. RV8