Carrie Fisher, a life on the edge, Sheila Weller
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Carrie Fisher, a life on the edge, Sheila Weller
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-381) and index
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non fiction
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Carrie Fisher
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Sheila Weller
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a life on the edge
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"Sheila Weller 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. We follow Fishers acting career, and 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 near-fatal overdosefrom actress to highly praised, bestselling author. 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. Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fishers life, Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge is an empathic and even-handed 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."--, Adapted from Amazon.com
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Introduction: famous for simply being herself -- Hollywood baby -- A complicated childhood -- From Broadway to Beatty to Britain -- Princess Leia becomes the toast of young New York -- The fabulous life of the girl in the metal bikini -- "She burned like a bride" -- A writer who acts -- "When I love, I love for miles" -- "I am mentally ill. I can say that" -- The warrior in the war zone -- Working through anything -- A year from hell, a year of final kindness
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