Name: Postcards from the Edge
Rating: 3.695652173913043 (23 reviews)
ISBN: 9780671724733

Carrie Fisher

Suzanne, a patient in a drug rehabilitation clinic, strives to gain control of her life, in a look at the dangers and seductions of all addictions

Postcards from the Edge

"I'm expecting a breakthrough any decade now..." POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE Suzanne Vale is funny and famous, a thirty-ish actress who has crash-landed in rehab, and navigated the humorous and harrowing byways of all of her addictions...even love. Tough yet fragile, she's hanging on -- and she's not sure why. There is her unsupporting cast of friends and lovers: Alex, an arrogantly handsome TV writer. Suzanne has a place in his heart...and maybe even in his new script. Jack, a producer and super-stud. His relationship with Suzanne is heavy on analysis and light on commitment. Lucy, her trusted gal pal. When the going gets rough, they charge away their blues on Rodeo Drive. Jesse, a novelist and the almost-too-good-to-be-true result of a "dating accident." His Niceness is boring Suzanne to death -- and driving her crazy with love. Poignant, painful, excruciatingly funny, Carrie Fisher's bestseller is a dazzling survivor's tale, and "a wickedly shrewd, black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life" (People).

Amy Place

This happened to be available as an audiobook from the Libby app, and I'm participating in a Summer Reading Bingo program at my local library, so I figured since it was short I'd give it a listen to cross off the "Read a book without reading the synopsis" square. After finishing it today, I don't think I could give you a synopsis, and I don't think I would have read it if I wasn't currently reading competitively. But I do like Carrie Fisher. And there were some amusing moments and tender moments. Alas, mere moments.

Patty Pforte

I really liked this book. Fisher surprised me with her wit and intelligence. I highly recommend it!

Sarah Sammis

Kelci

This bestselling Hollywood novel by the witty author of Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. 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.

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