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Wishful Drinking

by Carrie Fisher
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Wishful Drinking
Wishful Drinking

Hollywood royalty's raw, humorous, personal memoir

If you're intrigued by the blend of humor and earnestness with which someone can tackle life's rollercoaster, Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking" will resonate with you. It's candid and peppered with witticisms that only Fisher could conjure, detailing a journey that, while uniquely her own among Hollywood's glitz and dysfunction, rings true with the universal quirks of family, fame, and recovery. Whether you're a Star Wars fan or just someone who appreciates candid self-reflection paired with laughter, Fisher's memoir offers a window into the life of someone who has navigated incredible ups and downs with an infectious sense of humor.

  • Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2010)
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Wishful Drinking

by Carrie Fisher
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ISBN: 9781439153710
Authors: Carrie Fisher
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Inc.
Date of Publication: 2009-09-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Mental Health, Biography, Autobiography, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 91105 readers)

Description

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It’s an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty – Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher – homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandised on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed. Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. Entertainment Weekly declared it “drolly hysterical” and the Los Angeles Times called it a “Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.” This is Carrie Fisher at her best – revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation,
 

Hollywood royalty's raw, humorous, personal memoir

If you're intrigued by the blend of humor and earnestness with which someone can tackle life's rollercoaster, Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking" will resonate with you. It's candid and peppered with witticisms that only Fisher could conjure, detailing a journey that, while uniquely her own among Hollywood's glitz and dysfunction, rings true with the universal quirks of family, fame, and recovery. Whether you're a Star Wars fan or just someone who appreciates candid self-reflection paired with laughter, Fisher's memoir offers a window into the life of someone who has navigated incredible ups and downs with an infectious sense of humor.

  • Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.