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ISBN 9780743269308 (0-7432-6930-6, 0743269306)

by Carrie Fisher

ISBN 0743269306 (0-7432-6930-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Carrie Fisher's The Best Awful returns Postcards from the Edge fans to the often hilarious, occasionally tragic, but always captivating world of Suzanne Vale, a bi-polar, celebrity talk show host with a six-year old daughter, a gay ex-husband, an aging starlet mother, and an unbreakable will to survive. After Suzanne stops taking her medication, Fisher treats us to the wild, hysterical ride that follows Suzanne's manic episodes, including a search for Oxycontin in Tijuana with her tattoo artist and a new house guest in the form of Hoyt, a clinically depressed patient Suzanne picks up at her psychopharmacologist's office. Even after the inevitable psychotic break lands Suzanne at Shady Lanes, where she's the "latest loony to hit the bin," Fisher never deviates from her trademark wit and uncanny ability to find truth in every irony:

You entered the hospital broken, found some other like broken patient people, and once in their company, looked down on the other more pathetic inhabitants of the bin you shared, those flying even lower than you and your lo-flung co-conspirators...

An insider's look at the Hollywood most of us only read about in supermarket checkout lines, The Best Awful doesn't strive to be anything other than what it is--a rambunctious, honest, wise-cracking trip to rock bottom and back again. Supporting characters are just that, a backdrop against whom Suzanne hopes to find a plausible sense of self. For readers who can accept this novel for what it is, The Best Awful promises over 250 pages of uninhibited entertainment. --Gisele Toueg [via]

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Best Awful There Is

by Carrie Fisher

ISBN 0743257200 (0-7432-5720-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited

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Delusions Grandma Header Panel

by Carrie Fisher

ISBN 0671860119 (0-671-86011-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited

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Delusions Grandma Header Panel: ISBN 0671860119 (0-671-86011-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited

Delusions of Grandma

by Carrie Fisher

ISBN 0684858037 (0-684-85803-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited

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Struggling with a manic-depressive partner, a dear friend's death, and a failed romance, Hollywood screenwriter Cora Sharpe learns that she is pregnant and finds her life further complicated by her zealous mother. Reprint. [via]

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Fast Forward : Growing up in the Shadow of Hollywood

by Carrie Fisher

ISBN 0676549101 (0-676-54910-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Fast Forward : Growing up in the Shadow of Hollywood: ISBN 0676549101 (0-676-54910-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

ISBN 9780679454533 (0-679-45453-5, 0679454535)

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Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood

by Leah Painter Roberts, Carrie Fisher , Lauren Greenfield

ISBN 0679454535 (0-679-45453-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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A 13-year-old girl works out at the track with her personal trainer. Two 17-year-olds caress their newborn. A 7-year-old pauses on the red carpet outside the Shrine Auditorium on her way into the Academy Awards ceremony. A 16-year-old lifts his shirt to reveal a hairless chest wreathed in tattoos. These are but a few of the provocative images that fill the pages of Fast Forward, a collection of portraits capturing children from East L.A. to Bel-Air. Many of these photos are accompanied by the kids' own words about their lives and the world around them, often revealing a wisdom beyond their years and a naiveness--a failure to understand the values in which they are immersed. What emerges from these images and words is an alluring, if at times disturbing, portrait of a generation perhaps too quick to leave its innocence behind. [via]

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Hardcover, Random House Inc

ISBN 9780810941571 (0-8109-4157-0, 0810941570)

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Hollywood Moms

by Joyce Ostin, Carrie Fisher

ISBN 0810941570 (0-8109-4157-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc

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Their names and faces are emblazoned across marquees and magazinesSusan Sarandon, Madonna, Melanie Griffith, Michelle Pfeifferand yet these famous women are not mere icons. They are flesh and blood, heart and soul, and mothers and daughters. This remarkable collection of photographs and comments offers inspirational, candid portraits of more than 50 acclaimed actresses, directors, producers, and performers, each one posing with her mother or daughter.

From Candice Bergen to Jennifer Lopez, the women in this book bring a wide range of perspectives to the universal theme of motherhood. Introduced by actress Carrie Fisher (who poses with her mother, Debbie Reynolds, and her daughter, Billie), and accompanied by each subjects own words, Joyce Ostins intimate photographs are a testament to the wonder and power of the mother-daughter bond, and make this book an ideal gift for women of any age.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Revlon-UCLA Womens Cancer Research Program. [via]

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Postcards from the Edge

by Carrie Fisher

ISBN 0330320319 (0-330-32031-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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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. More of a fiction montage than a novel in the conventional sense, this stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne's vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences-from the clinic to her coming to terms with life in the outside world. Conversations with her psychiatrist-"What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I haven't had enough therapy to be comfortable with having found him?"; a high-concept, eighties-style affair-"The only way to become intimate for me is repeated exposure. My route to intimacy is routine. I establish a pattern with somebody and then I notice when they're not there?" Sparked by Suzanne's-and Carrie Fisher's-deliciously wry sense of the absurd, 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. [via]

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