{"product_id":"book-c3ua","title":"How to Murder Your Life","description":"From Cat Marnell, “New York’s enfant terrible” (\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at \u003ci\u003eLucky\u003c\/i\u003e, 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—\u003ci\u003eanything\u003c\/i\u003e—to sleep.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLucky\u003c\/i\u003e. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom the Condé 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 \u003ci\u003eno\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCombining lighting-rod subject matter and bold literary aspirations, \u003ci\u003eHow to Murder Your Life \u003c\/i\u003eis mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347300294960,"sku":"BDc3ua","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/199008-c3ua-Square.jpg?v=1734200514","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c3ua","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}