Postcards From the Edge

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** THENEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL **
** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry **

I dont think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.

Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like something on the bottom of someones shoe, and not even someone interesting. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how shell cope and find work back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. Ambitious, good-looking in a Heathcliffish way and in the grip of a monumental addiction, he makes Suzanne realize that, however eccentric her life might seem, theres always someone whos even closer to the edge of reason.

Carrie Fishers bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywoodthe home of success, sex and insecurityand has become a beloved cult classic.

This novel, with its energy, bounce and generous delivery of a loud laugh on almost every page, stands as a declaration of war on two fronts: on normal and on unhappy STEPHEN FRY

A single womans answer to Nora Ephrons Heartburn . . . the smart successor to Joan Didions Play It as It Lays Los Angeles Times

A cult classic . . . A wonderfully funny, brash and biting novelWashington Post

'A wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life'People

'Searingly funny' Vogue

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Id forgotten how good it is. Carrie Fishers narrator Suzanne Vale tells this story, of a privileged woman gone awry, with sharpness and wit * Evening Standard *
A sharply irreverent, deliciously witty trip through Hollywood-land -- Jackie Collins
Savagely funny and savagely revealing. It makes Moby-Dick seem like a big, fat, dumb book -- Steve Martin
Carrie Fishers 1987 roman clef bristles with a bravery and candor that still feels groundbreaking * New York Times *

Author Bio

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.