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Title: Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0-7434-6651-9 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A unique voice
Comment: Many people, myself among them, were initially turned off by Carrie Fisher's Postcards from the Edge. Oh no, here comes another Hollywood star who thinks she can run the gamut of the arts. Even though the book was a bestseller when it was released, I couldn't change my initial (and, admittedly) biased opinion--50 million Elvis fans can be wrong. Even when Surrender the Pink, Fisher's second novel, appeared and garnered acclaim, I wasn't satisfied. But then Postcards from the Edge was made into a film with Meryl Streep, and, needing a film to see, I went. And what transpired on the screen (from a screenplay by Fisher) was enough to break through my bias.
Postcards from the Edge is quite different from the movie, however. The movie has a linear story that is quite clearly autobiographical for Fisher--Suzanne Vail is a young star undergoes a stomach pump, then drug rehabilitation, and it all is the result of early fame, and a famous mother that the star has yet to really come to terms with. The book, although similar in parts, has a "postcard" feel. The early section is told through the diary entries of Suzanne and Alex, an addicted young screenwriter. Later sections, told only through the point of view of Suzanne, range from entirely dialogue through more traditional third person narrative.
Fisher understands the process of addiction, that searching for escape, then denial, then endless justification. Her portrayal of drug addiction goes beyond drugs--I've never taken any, but I could see the patterns of addiction in terms of my many vices. She also understands the glad-handing movie culture enough to be able to depict it as glamorous, while also showing the pimples underneath. Bret Easton Ellis has nothing on her one scene of Suzanne going shopping: the brand names, the non-sequiturs, the endless vagaries are all things he would have died to write.
Carrie Fisher has a way with words. She's not the next Dorothy Parker, but there is a fine example of wit in Postcards from the Edge. It's a wit measured by the 80s, by her experience, and by her personality. Ellis can't match it, because he hasn't lived her life. And that's what makes Postcards from the Edge special: it is a book that was written by the only person who could write it. That is, it is unique. And, frankly, that's more than can be said for many books published these days.
Rating: 2
Summary: Fisher should stick to acting...
Comment: Carrie Fisher's (yes, Princess Leia) first novel is a mish-mash of styles that ultimately disappoints. The main character, an actress named Suzanne, is drifting her way through her Hollywood world, asking unimportant questions about relationships, drugs and life. Try all you like, but it's hard to get attached to someone who is so unattached to her own existence.
Rating: 5
Summary: Humorous, swinging, all you could wish for!!
Comment: Just a quick note to remark how much I loved this book! Carrie Fisher beautifully brings us the inside of Hollywood through a web of humor, drugs, relationships, 'Hollywood Party Terror', and much more.
The plot centers on a 30-year-old actress named Susan Vale, and follows her challenges as she overcomes her drug addiction, gets back into the swing of things, and finally falls in love- although her 'unstable' being forbids her from admitting it.
I absolutely adored 'Postcards'! A must-read!
*long live Carrie Fisher*
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Title: The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0684809133 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0671666401 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0671732277 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title:Postcards from the Edge ASIN: B000059XTI Publisher: Columbia/Tristar Studios Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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Title: Hollywood Moms by Joyce Ostin ISBN: 0810941570 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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