

An edition of Postcards from the Edge (1987)
By Carrie Fisher
Publish Date
1987-01-01
Publisher
Generic
Language
eng
Pages
240
Description:
When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she’s feeling like “something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting.” Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a “drug hospital.” Just as Fisher’s first film role—the precocious teenager in Shampoo—echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing, her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne’s vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences inside the clinic and as she comes to terms with life in the outside world. Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers—and delights—of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.
subjects: Fiction, Motion picture industry, Substance abuse, Treatment, Fiction, general, Motion picture industry, fiction, Hollywood (los angeles, calif.), fiction, Actors, Industrie du cinéma, Films de fiction, Drug abusers, Acteurs de cinéma, Los Angeles, Motion picture actors and actresses, Rehabilitation
Places: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), California, Los Angeles