Wishful Drinking

Zusatztext "There are more juicy confessions and outrageously funny observations packed in these honest pages than most celebrity bios twice the length...With acerbic precisions and brash humor! she writes of struggling with and enjoying aspects of her alcoholism! drug addiction and mental breakdowns. Her razor-sharp observations about celebrity! addiction and sexuality demand to be read aloud to friends." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Informationen zum Autor Carrie Fisher (19562016) became a cultural icon as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy. She starred in countless films, including Shampoo and When Harry Met Sally . 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. Klappentext In her first ever memoir, Carrie Fisher takes us on an intimate, hilarious and sobering journey through her life. Zusammenfassung In WISHFUL DRINKING, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Warswhen only 19 years old. "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 hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction, weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. 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.