![]() ![]() 'A single woman's answer to Nora Ephron's Heartburn. ![]() 'This novel, with its energy, bounce and generous delivery of a loud laugh on almost every page, stands as a declaration of war on two fronts: on normal and on unhappy' STEPHEN FRY ![]() 5, 1987 Yes, that's the Carrie Fisher, Princess Leila of the Star Wars films and daughter of Eddie, and this is her first novel, a maybe autobiographical, definitely ultra-hip, experimental, and dryly comic chronicle of a young actress's bouts with drugs, Hollywood, men. Ambitious, good-looking in a Heathcliffish way and in the grip of a monumental addiction, he makes Suzanne realize that, however eccentric her life might seem, there's always someone who's even closer to the edge of reason.Ĭarrie Fisher's bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywood - the home of success, sex and insecurity - and has become a beloved cult classic. postcards from the edge by Carrie Fisher RELEASE DATE: Aug. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she'll cope - and find work - back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like 'something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting'. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.' 'I don't think you can even call this a drug. ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** ** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL ** Carrie Fishers novel, Postcards from the Edge, adapts elements from her own life in telling the story of Suzanne Vale, an actress whos returning to life after. ![]()
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