Carrie Fisher, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-80913-7
The inimitable Suzanne Vale returns to battle her demons (drugs, bipolar disorder and Hollywood self-obsession) in actress and screenwriter Fisher's blackly comic sequel to Postcards from the Edge
. Leland Franklin, a studio executive whose...
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Carrie Fisher, Author . Simon & Schuster $21 (163p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0225-1
Fisher has fictionalized her life in several novels (notably Postcards from the Edge
), but her first memoir (she calls it “a really, really detailed personals ad”) proves that truth is stranger than fiction. There are more juicy...
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Carrie Fisher, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (260p) ISBN 978-0-671-73227-1
Fisher ( Surrender the Pink ) is up to her usual schtick: analyzing the dynamics of a love affair gone sour. It all works fairly well, as long as the narrator, pregnant Hollywood script rewriter Cora Sharpe, doesn't get carried away with her own...
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Carrie Fisher, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66640-8
The tendency of Dinah Kaufman to blur the borders between her life and the soap opera scripts she pens is the central conceit of Fisher's ( Postcards From the Edge ) second novel. Two years after the breakup of her marriage to award-winning...
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Carrie Fisher. Simon & Schuster, $22 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6482-2
In this funny and sad memoir, Fisher (Wishful Drinking) tackles her difficult decision to pursue ongoing electroshock therapy, an unpopular medical alternative which she lauds as a last-ditch effort to alleviate the pain of living her particular...
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Carrie Fisher, Author, Carrie Fisher, Read by , read by the author. Simon & Schuster Audio $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-88538-0
Fisher's (Postcards from the Edge
, etc.) powerful and partly autobiographical tale of mental illness translates brilliantly to audio, thanks in large part to the author's skillful narration. From the first few lines ("Suzanne Vale had a
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Carrie Fisher, Author, Carrie Fisher, Read by , read by the author. Audioworks $14.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-9717-3
Fisher's larger-than-life personality shines through as she performs her raucous memoir with all the panache of the standup routine that inspired the book. Her comedic talents are on full display—particularly in her diagram of Hollywood...
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Carrie Fisher, read by author. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, four CDs, 4 hrs., $24.99 ISBN 978-0-7435-5026-0
Carrie Fisher regales listeners with her thoughts on self-destruction, death, and delirium in this follow-up to Postcards from the Edge, that covers everything from her relationships with her father and stepfather to her electroshock therapy and...
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Carrie Fisher, read by the author and Billie Lourd. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 4 CDs, 5 hrs., $32 ISBN 978-0-399-56555-7
Fisher finally set out to publish a collection of essays related specifically to her role as Princess Leah in the blockbuster Star Wars movie franchise and a brief affair with her older—and married—co-star Harrison Ford during the shooting of the...
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Carrie Fisher, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66641-5
By making a dismal attempt to conform to her ex-husband's expectations, soap opera scriptwriter Dinah Kaufman tests her ``pink'' girlish fantasy that the right man will secure her happiness forever. ``Unlike Fisher's fragmented, rather brittle first
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Carrie Fisher, Author, Paul Slansky, Editor Simon & Schuster $15.45 (224p) ISBN 978-0-671-62441-5
Readers who persevere beyond the opening, off-putting chapters of this first novel by actress Fisher will discover that she brings a real talent to bear on her depiction of Hollywood. In a series of vignettes, we meet the protagonist, young film...
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