Carrie fisher s reading of her first novel evokes the deliciously irreverent humor that formed the lens through which she looked at life in the 80s. Postcards from the edge audiobook, by carrie fisher. Postcards from the edge lake county public library overdrive. In the princess diarist she documents her time in the star wars films with characteristic honesty and humour, giving us an entertaining and revealing glimpse into the changes she went through during that formative period of her life. Nov 01, 2011 shockaholic audiobook written by carrie fisher. Posted on september, 2017 september 18, 2017 by supposedly fun. Yes, thats the carrie fisher, princess leila of the star wars films and daughter of eddie, and this is her first novel, a maybe autobiographical, definitely ultrahip, experimental, and dryly comic chronicle of a young actresss bouts with drugs, hollywood, men.
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In tribute, we look at her very first novel, a semiautobiographical tale of a young actress dealing with the aftermath of a drug overdose. A wonderfully witty, quirky book with a candid take on hollywood and one actresses take on how its impacted her life, good and bad. Carrie fisher postcards from the edge audiobook 129. Shes had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of hollywood inbreeding, come of age on the set of a little movie called star wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Postcards from the edge alaska digital library overdrive. In a stunning literary debut, carrie fisher chronicles the excruciatingly funny adventures of suzanne vale, young film star and drug addict, who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and were left laughin. Carrie fisher reads her novel postcards from the edge. Carrie fisher, american actress and author who was perhaps best known for playing princess leia in the space opera star wars, though she also earned critical acclaim for her writing, which included the autobiographical novel postcards from the edge. Postcards from the edge by carrie fisher, paperback barnes. The best awful audiobook abridged listen instantly.
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Postcards from the edge book by carrie fisher official. Postcards from the edge new york public library overdrive. Postcards from the edge is the semiautobiographical novel based on the turbulent life of carrie fisher the first third of the story recounting 30 days of actress suzanne vales life in rehab was pretty intense and nerveracking reading for me and if you can get through lives and stories of drug dealers, addicts and rather disgusting hollywood types in those pages, the rest of the novel. Postcards from the edge by carrie fisher this bestselling hollywood novel by the witty author of wishful drinking and shockaholic that was made into a movie.
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It was later adapted by fisher herself into a motion picture of. Aug 01, 1987 postcards from the edge is the semiautobiographical novel based on the turbulent life of carrie fisher the first third of the story recounting 30 days of actress suzanne vales life in rehab was pretty intense and nerveracking reading for me and if you can get through lives and stories of drug dealers, addicts and rather disgusting hollywood types in those pages, the rest of the novel. Fisher flashes some wicked talent here, especially in the opening scenes, where she flipflops two firstperson voices to chronicle. Carrie fishers first novel is set within the world she knows better than anyone else.
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