Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm and Survival.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Australian Studies | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: Parkes, Geoff | Copyright information

Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm and Survival, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2004, pp 202, pb $24.95, ISBN 1741141575.

It's strange to think that Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation is now almost a decade old, its blistering yet somehow hopeful prose so fresh and familiar to my lithium- and efexorabled mind. Wurtzel's incantations of pain, drawing from the wells of Patti Smith and Anne Sexton, chronicled her frenzied battle with depression. Fr...

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