Wishful Drinking
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (994 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001NQ6HKW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's an incredible tale - from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.. In WISHFUL DRINKING, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres." Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace
Whistlers Mom said Give it a chance. This author is an alcoholic and I am a bookaholic. When I start reading a book, I compulsively continue it, even if it's God-awful and I hate it. This unfortunate quirk has caused me many a boring hour, but in this case I owe it a debt of gratitude.Which is a way of saying that the giddy, girly style of writing in the first chapter almost drove me insane. Nothing but my reluctance to abandon a book kept me going. But then a miracle happened and the writing (while informal and still WAY too full of whimsy) settled down. By the second chapter, I was glued to Fisher's weird family diagram (parents, sibling, spouses, step-parents, half. DDK said I was too sad to go to bed so I bought this book. I bought this book the day after Carrie's death, about an hour after I learned of her mother's death. I was too sad to go to bed so I bought this book instead. And read it straight through.I'm glad I did."Postcards from the Edge" was my only prior impression of the relationship these two women had. This memoir paints a very different picture. I am sorry the world has lost these two brilliant and beautiful souls, but I am glad for them both that they still have each other.. Amazon Customer said Upbeat Hollywood tale of survival, light on suffering, long on humor. Not a life-changing memoir but a life-affirming one, with a sharp, honest recounting of actress/author Carrie Fisher's life. In turns funny and bawdy, she never asks for pity, but goes at it like a true recovered addict: all her pain digested into humor, but never denied. I suffer from similar issues and found her believable and illuminating and empowering. There is nothing poetic or soaring about this book, just a fellow journeyman telling their bittersweet tale of survival. And that is more than enough.
She is the author of Shockaholic;Wishful Drinking (which became a hit Broadway production); and four bestselling novels, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The Best Awful, and Postcards from the Edge. She starred in countless films, including Shampoo and When Harry Met Sally. Carrie Fisher became a cultural icon as Princess Leia in the first Star
Her razor-sharp observations about celebrity, addiction and sexuality demand to be read aloud to friends. At one point, this daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher (one an icon, the other an arm piece to icons) hilariously diagrams her family tree of Hollywood marriages and remarriages to make sure her daughter's potential date is not a relative. . From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. With acerbic precision and brash humor, she writes of struggling with and enjoying aspects of her alcoholism, drug addiction and mental breakdowns. After describing how she underwent electroshock therapy for her manic depression, Fisher then sorts through her life as her memories return. 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. All rights reserved. There are more juicy confessions and outrageously