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Books by Carrie Fisher and Complete Book Reviews
THE BEST AWFUL
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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Wishful Drinking
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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Delusions of Grandma
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
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The Princess Diarist
2016 memoir (book) by Carrie Fisher
The Princess Diarist is a 2016 memoir written by Carrie Fisher, based on diaries she kept as a young woman around the time she starred in the 1977 film Star Wars. The book is the third memoir Fisher wrote, in addition to four novels and a one-woman Broadway show.[2] It is Fisher's final book, as she died on December 27, 2016, five weeks after its release.[3]
The book describes Fisher's affair with co-star Harrison Ford in detail.[1] At the time of the relationship, Ford was married with two children and in his early 30s.[4]
Reception
The Washington Post's Sibbie O'Sullivan described the book as cringe-worthy, but said, "this memoir is also educational, if you overlook its authorial excesses."[1] Anthony Breznican writing in Entertainment Weekly gave the book a rating of B−, saying, "There isn't a lot of insight into the character or the creation of a movie that means so much to so many, but there's tremendous insight into the volatile heart of a y
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Carrie Fisher
American actress and writer (1956–2016)
Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress and writer.[1] She played Princess Leia in the originalStar Wars films (1977–1983) and reprised the role inStar Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), a posthumous release that was dedicated to her,[2][3] and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), through the use of unreleased footage from The Force Awakens.[4][5] Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Soapdish (1991), and The Women (2008).[6] She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2007) and the Channel 4 series Catastrophe (2017).
Fisher wrote several semi-autobiographical novels, including Postcards from the Edge and an autobiographical one-woma
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