Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher - ISBN: 9781849833646
Paperback
Rehab, Hollywood, and humor: finding sanity on the edge of reason.

Postcards From the Edge

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    18 November 2011

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Summary

** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry **

‘I don’t think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.’

Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781849833646
ISBN-10:1849833648
Author:Carrie Fisher
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:18 November 2011
Weight:284g
Dimensions:31mm x 198mm x 248mm
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Critics Review

‘I’d forgotten how good it is. Carrie Fisher’s narrator Suzanne Vale tells this story, of a privileged woman gone awry, with sharpness and wit’ * Evening Standard *‘A sharply irreverent, deliciously witty trip through Hollywood-land’ – Jackie Collins‘Savagely funny and savagely revealing. It makes Moby-Dick seem like a big, fat, dumb book’ – Steve Martin‘Carrie Fisher’s 1987 roman à clef bristles with a bravery and candor that still feels groundbreaking’ * New York Times *

About The Author

Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, became an icon when she starred as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy. Her star-studded career includes roles in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally. She is the author of five bestselling novels:

  • Wishful Drinking
  • Surrender the Pink
  • Delusions of Grandma
  • The Best Awful
  • Postcards from the Edge (which was made into a hit film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep).

Fisher’s experience with addiction and mental illness—and her willingness to speak honestly about them—have made her a sought-after speaker and respected advocate.

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