Carrie Fisher (1956-2016) became a cultural icon as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy. She starred in countless films, including Shampoo and When Harry Met Sally. She is the author of Shockaholic; Wishful Drinking (which became a hit Broadway production); and four bestselling novels, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The Best Awful, and Postcards from the Edge.
People No-holds-barred humor and snappy banter.
Actress and writer Fisher follows the vein of substance abuse among the Hollywood elite that she began in Postcards from the Edge. Reintroduced here is her lead character from that novel, the sharp, wise-cracking minor celebrity, Suzanne Vale, who moves from recovery to psychosis and back again. The excuses that she gives for her problems range from her husband's leaving her for a man to having famously self-absorbed parents. True to the clich? that the apple never falls far from the tree, Suzanne repeats her own story of childhood neglect with her small daughter, Honey. Afflicted with bipolar disorder and fed up with her life, Suzanne irresponsibly decides to raise her manic self by quitting her medications. Thus begins her starkly depicted downward spiral into madness. After a lark in Tijuana with a tattoo artist and an overdose of pills, she lands in a mental hospital. Despite the tawdry subject matter, wit and humor abound, making this novel recommended for all fiction collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/02.]-Sheila Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
People No-holds-barred humor and snappy banter.
Vanity Fair Carrie Fisher [is] one of our most painfully
hilarious correspondents from the edge of sanity.
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