How to Murder Your Life

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<p><i></i> <i>'I was twenty-six years old and an associate<b>beauty editor</b>at Lucky, one of the<b>top fashion magazines</b>in America. Thats all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets: I was a<b>drug addict</b>, for one.<b>A pillhead</b>. I was also an<b>alcoholic-in-training</b>who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my bosss office with the door closed; a conniving and manipulative<b>uptown doctor-shopper</b>; a salami-and-provolone-puking<b>bulimic</b>who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often); a weepy,</i><i>wobbly, wildly<b>hallucination-prone insomniac</b>; a tweaky self-mutilator; a slutty and self-loathing<b>downtown party girl</b>; and perhaps most of all a lonely weirdo.<b>But, you know, I had access to some really fantastic self-tanner.</b>'</i></p><p>By the age of 15, Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of women's 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 Condé Nast, with a talent for 'doctor-shopping' that secured her a never-ending supply of prescribed amphetamines. Her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, while she struggled to hold down her high-profile job during the day.</p><p>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 pin-sharp humour and beguiling style.</p> <p><b>'New York's enfant terrible...Her talent has resided in her uncanny ability to write about addiction from the untidy, unsafe, unhappy epicentre of the disease, rather than from some writerly remove.'</b><i>Telegraph</i> <i></i><i></i> <i>'</i><b>I LOVE this book'</b>Catriona Innes,<i>Cosmopolitan Magazine UK</i></p><p><b>'An unputdownable, brilliantly written rollercoaster'</b>Shappi Khorsandi</p><p><b>'Brilliantly written and harrowing and funny and honest'</b>Louise France,<i>The Times Magazine</i> <i></i> <b>'Easily one of the most anticipated memoirs of the year...[Marnell's] got an inimitable style (and oh my god, so many have tried) and a level of talent so high, it's impossible not to be rooting for her.'</b><i>NYLON</i></p>

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Cat Marnell is a Condé Nast drop-out and former beauty editor at<i>Lucky</i>and xoJane.com. She wrote the Amphetamine Logic column for<i>Vice. How to Murder Your Life</i>is her first book.

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