I was twentysix years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America. Thats all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets I was a drug addict, for one. A pillhead. I was also an alcoholicintraining who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my bosss office with the door closed a conniving and manipulative uptown doctorshopper a salamiandprovolonepuking bulimic who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often) a weepy, wobbly, wildly hallucinationprone insomniac a tweaky selfmutilator a slutty and selfloathing downtown party girl and perhaps most of all a lonely weirdo. But, you know, I had access to some really fantastic selftanner.By the age of 15, Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of womens magazines but was also addicted to the ADHD meds prescribed by her father. Within 10 years she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Cond Nast, with a talent for doctorshopping that secured her a neverending supply of prescribed amphetamines. Her life had become a twisted merrygoround of parties and pills at night, while she struggled to hold down her highprofile job during the day. Witty, magnetic and penetrating prompting comparisons to Bret Easton Ellis and Charles Bukowski Cat Marnell reveals essential truths about her generation, brilliantly uncovering the many aspects of being an addict with pinsharp humour and...

Binding: Paperback;384 pages; Publisher: Ebury Publishing; Classification: BM; Weight: 382 g; Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 27

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