Postcards from the edge
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Beschrijving :
Suzanne Vale, the actress, is now a patient in a drug-rehabilitation clinic. A victim of Hollywood's glitzy wheeling, dealing, faking it and making it, she is clawing her way back from the edge. Fast, funny and searingly realistic, Carrie Fisher's deft portraits of the inhabitants of the clinic are reminiscent of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , simultaneously harrowing and hilarious. A young man celebrates his rehabilitation with a wild cocaine spree. Shopping expeditions are therapy. And conversation with a psychiatrist is the order of the day. Through the montage of diary extracts, memory flashbacks and narrative shines Suzanne's (and Carrie Fisher's) sense of the absurd. This is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers and delights of the obsessions of our age - career, money, sex and insecurity. In her literary debut, Carrie Fisher, star of Shampoo , Star Wars and Hannah and Her Sisters, reaches rare heights of perception, intelligence and imagination. 'With surprising literary artistry, Carrie Fisher swims through relationship-infested waters, braves cocaine blizzards, glitz spills . . . and bon-mot attacks to show us what despair is like when it refuses to take itself seriously' Tom Robbins 'This is a remarkable first novel. Carrie Fisher is as astounding on paper as she is in person' Candice Bergen
Gegevens
- Locatie
- MOBO
- Publicatielocatie
- London
- Uitgever
- Pan
- Publicatiedatum
- 1987
- Fysieke beschrijving
- 221 p.
- Tag
- Collection
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- volwassenen
- Stardom
- Drugs
- ISBN
- 9780330301695