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PUBLISHER SIMON & SCHUSTER
©2008
ISBN-10 1439102252
ISBN-13 9781439102251
FORMAT Hardcover
PAGES 163
Size 8.75 x 5.75 x 1
Weight 0.78
PUBLISHED 2008-12-02
From Strand Bookstore
If ever there were living proof of just how intense coming of age in Hollywood can be, Carrie Fisher's story could very well be considered the ultimate. Born the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Carrie was in a unique position of being involved with icons growing up, and becoming an icon herself by the age of nineteen. In 'Wishful Drinking' Fisher speaks candidly on just how her extraordinary life and unpreccedented success led to her eventual mental collapse and struggles with addiction. Filled with all of the candor and intelligence that have come to mark Fisher's career of late, this stunningly original and insightfully poignant memoir pulls back the curtain on a life unlike others.
From the Publisher
A provocative, uproarious memoir based on the author's one-woman show describes growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in Star Wars, demanding professional life, battle with addiction and mental illness, turbulent romances, role as a single mother, and struggle for recovery and healing. 150,000 first printing.
Review
Publishers Weekly Annex
"Her razor-sharp observations about celebrity, addiction and sexuality demand to be read aloud to friends."
More about the book
Carrie Fisher, the razor-tongued author and actress, pens a much anticipated memoir based on her one woman show, WISHFUL DRINKING. The book details Fisher's life growing up in the limelight as the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Perhaps best known for her role as Princess Leia, Fisher hilariously describes what it was like to be 19 and have an action figure in your likeness. She boldly leaves no stone unturned, openly discussing her alcoholism and addiction issues, her marriage and divorce from singer Paul Simon, her electroshock therapy, and the bizarre, over-the-top antics of her mother. A deeply personal and incredibly brave tell-all, Fisher examines her life through her own acerbic lens, with some pretty hilarious, and often moving results.
Synopses
Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.
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