Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller

• Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge
• Sheila Weller
• Page: 416
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780374282233
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

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A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid—and brilliant—Carrie Fisher In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller—with heart and a profound feeling for the times—gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. Now she turns her focus to one of the most loved, brilliant, and iconoclastic women of our time: the actress, writer, daughter, and mother Carrie Fisher. Weller traces Fisher’s life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016. Her mother was the spunky and adorable Debbie Reynolds; her father, the heartthrob crooner Eddie Fisher. When Eddie ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, the scandal thrust little Carrie Frances into a bizarre spotlight, gifting her with an irony and an aplomb that would resonate throughout her life. We follow Fisher’s acting career, from her debut in Shampoo, the hit movie that defined mid-1970s Hollywood, to her seizing of the plum female role in Star Wars, which catapulted her to instant fame. We explore her long, complex relationship with Paul Simon and her relatively peaceful years with the talent agent Bryan Lourd. We witness her startling leap—on the heels of a near-fatal overdose—from actress to highly praised, bestselling author, the Dorothy Parker of her place and time. Weller sympathetically reveals the conditions that Fisher lived with: serious bipolar disorder and an inherited drug addiction. Still, despite crises and overdoses, her life’s work—as an actor, a novelist and memoirist, a script doctor, a hostess, and a friend—was prodigious and unique. As one of her best friends said, “I almost wish the expression ‘one of a kind’ didn’t exist, because it applies to Carrie in a deeper way than it applies to others.” Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisher’s life, Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge is an empathic and even-handed portrayal of a woman who—as Princess Leia, but mostly as herself—was a feminist heroine, one who died at a time when we need her blazing, healing honesty more than ever.

Carrie Fisher's one-woman play looks back at her life on the edge
BEVERLY HILLS, California — There is a canvas sign hanging over Princess Leia's parking lot that reads, "May the Life Force Be With You.". Carrie Fisher - Wikipedia
Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, . In 1987, Fisher published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge. and satirized real-life events such as her drug addiction of the late 1970s and her  Postcards from the Edge: Amazon.ca: Carrie Fisher: Books
Postcards from the Edge: Amazon.ca: Carrie Fisher: Books. trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a “drug hospital.” Linda's Book Obsession Reviews ” Carrie Fisher A Life On The Edge
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12th November sees the release of Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller, a book which looks back at Carrie's incredible life,  An exclusive look inside Carrie Fisher's infamous, wild - MSN.com
Speaking to some of those who knew Carrie Fisher best, author Sheila Weller crafted Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge (out Nov. 12), an  Carrie Fisher: A Life On The Edge - By Sheila Weller - Target
Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge considers Fisher in full, with attention to the love , pain, illness, advocacy, humor, generosity, and contradiction that made her so  Postcards from the Edge Quotes by Carrie Fisher - Goodreads
Carrie Fisher: I did masses of opiates religiously.' Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge. tags: acting “Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”

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