Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge,New

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge,New

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A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candidand brilliantCarrie FisherIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Wellerwith heart and a profound feeling for the timesgave 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 Fishers 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 Fishers acting career, from her debut in Shampoo, the hit movie that defined mid1970s 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 leapon the heels of a nearfatal overdosefrom 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 lifes workas an actor, a novelist and memoirist, a script doctor, a hostess, and a friendwas prodigious and unique. As one of her best friends said, I almost wish the expression one of a kind didnt 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 Fishers life, Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge is an empathic and evenhanded portrayal of a woman whoas Princess Leia, but mostly as herselfwas a feminist heroine, one who died at a time when we need her blazing, healing honesty more than ever.

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