Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

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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. The author of five bestselling novels, including the sequel to Postcards from the Edge, The Best Awful, Fishers star-studded career includes roles in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally. In 2009, she was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Spoken Word Album for the audio edition of Wishful Drinking, which was a New York Times bestseller as well as a hit Broadway production. Carrie Fishers first novel is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood, the all-too-real fantasy land of drug users and deal makers. This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne Vales vivid, excruciatingly funny experiencesfrom the rehab clinic to life in the outside world. Sparked by Suzannesand Carriesdeliciously wry sense of the absurd, Postcards from the Edge is a revealing look at the dangers and delights of all our addictions, from success and money to sex and insecurity.

CRITICS AND CELEBRITIES ADORE
CARRIE FISHERS UPROARIOUS
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

At once harrowing and hilarious.

The New York Times

A sharply irreverent, deliciously witty trip through Hollywood-land.

Jackie Collins

The sort of novel that makes you want to call your friends to read passages out loud.

Womens Wear Daily

Searingly funny.

Vogue

An accurately sardonic, wonderfully detailed novel.

New York Daily News

A single womans answer to Nora Ephrons Heartburn, a less-sexual version of Erica Jongs Fear of Flying, the smart successor to Joan Didions Play It as It Lays.

Los Angeles Times

Postcards from the Edge percolates with a wry sense of self-deprecating humor that keeps Suzanne and the reader moving in the right direction.... An entertaining, thoughtful novel about insecurities not found exclusively in Hollywood.

Nashville Tennessean

Carrie Fisher has a unique and startling voice.... A born writer! She is seriously funny.

Mike Nichols

Carrie gives her protagonist the kind of humor born of pain, anger, and a strong will to live. The narrative voice is a bit like Holden Caulfield....

Time

Dryly comic... entertaining, often exhilarating.... Definitely ultra-hip.

Kirkus Reviews

Powerfully incisive and charmingly sweet....

United Press International

Fisher shows us the true plight of the mateless, smart, and neurotic character, familiar to us from Cynthia Heimel or Woody Allen; we also find the hip despair of Jay McInerney or Bret Easton Ellis, in this case a good-natured kind.... Postcards from the Edge is fun.

Newsday

With surprising literary artistry, Carrie Fisher swims through relationship-infested waters, braves cocaine blizzards, glitz spills, sushi tsunami, and bon-mot attacks to show us what despair is like when it refuses to take itself seriously.

Tom Robbins

Snappy dialogue, sensitive insights, and witty asides... Fisher... brings a real talent to bear on her depiction of Hollywood.

Publishers Weekly

Tantalizing... funny.

Columbia State

Surprising, hilarious, breathtaking, a wry and witty commentary on life in the fast lanes of Freewayland.

San Jose Mercury News

A wonderfully funny, brash, and biting novel, the most startling literary debut since Jay McInerneys Bright Lights, Big City.... This is a laugh-out-loud book.

Washington Post Book World

Intelligent, original, focused, insightful. A serious piece of work.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Also by Carrie Fisher

Postcards from the Edge

Surrender the Pink

Delusions of Grandma

The Best Awful

Wishful Drinking

First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition published in the USA in 2010
This edition published in Great Britain in 2011 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
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Copyright 1987 by Carrie Fisher

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For my mother and my brother

BROTHER THOMAS,

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesnt call for it? Well, I finally found a place where my struggling fits right in: the sunny Middle East. Brooding and moping doesnt seem overdramatic in Israel or Egypt or Turkey. Today I stood in a recently bombed-out train station. I looked at the charred, twisted metal and I thought, Finally my outsides match my insides. Maybe I should take a tour of the worlds trouble spots and really relax. See you soon.

Love,

Sister Suzanne

DEAR LUCY,

Okay, heres what I think now. Ready? I have to establish an overall plan for my overboard life. When I cross the finish line of my twenties this fall and that thirty flag goes down, Id like to be closing in on having some idea of whatever it is that my life is about.

Heres what Ive come up with so far: a) Ill get back into therapy, maybe with a woman therapist this time; b) Ill stop coloring my hair and dye it back to its normal colorIll artificially go natural; c) Ill only date people I really like, so I can feel like theres some point to it; d) Ill fix the eating thing; e) Im going to slip my hand out of the comforting clasp of chemicalsNo More Drugs. Also, get up early every day, read more, keep a journal, talk on the phone less, do less shopping and, eventually, have a child with someone. Obviously, the plan is in a really rough early phase, so Ill keep you posted as this gets honed down.

Honey, Im honed.

Your elfin buddy,

S.

DEAR GRAN,

Yet another offering to add to your collection of my poetic works.

Oh wow now

Ive done it

Ive made a mess

I feel a fool

I feel obsessed

When we get to the good part

Will I have something to wear?

I know my hearts in the right place