Postcards From the Edge

Beschreibung

** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL **<BR> ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry **<BR><BR>‘I don’t think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.’<BR> <BR>Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll 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, there’s always someone who’s even closer to the edge of reason.<BR> <BR>Carrie Fisher’s bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywood – the home of success, sex and insecurity – and has become a beloved cult classic.<BR> <BR> ‘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<BR><BR> ‘A single woman’s answer to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn . . . the smart successor to Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays’ Los Angeles Times<BR> <BR> ‘A cult classic . . .

A wonderfully funny, brash and biting novel’ Washington Post<BR><BR> 'A wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life' People<BR><BR> 'Searingly funny' Vogue

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