The only chapter/part I struggled a little with was Dysphoria, which felt much more like a gossip paper about Hollywood - it's not that it wasn't good, just that some of the reference and lifestyle was a little beyond my being able to connect.Īll in all though, I love Fishers prose and I love that reading on the Kindle lets me highlight as I go along (37 highlights from this book!). But instead of using wit as a protective wall, Fisher offered it as a momentary invitation to. I really enjoyed following along the character of Suzanne Vale. Radiating a flair for both ingenious snark and doleful cynicism, Postcards certainly evokes Parker. Suzanne Vale’s life, like most, is a series of ups and downs, but since hers proceeds along the. The book itself is also split into parts that remind me of an indie movie from the 90s (which I think it actually became) whose style is very much a monologue of the protagonist. Last Updated on May 8, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. This novel is structured differently to anything I've read so far (which isn't saying a great deal) starting as postcards, then as a she says/he says diary, then as "typical" third person. She is…was such a superb author chock full of quotable lines. By the end of this humane yet sobering book, it would be a tough reader indeed who passed judgment on those abandoned to their fate. It is a revealing look at the dangers-and delights-of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.I've now read two Carrie Fisher books and I've loved them both. Still, she is admirably keen not to lecture, but to understand.
A deeply reported account of what England’s seaside towns reveal about the state of. Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. The Seaside by Madeleine Bunting review postcards from the edge. General, Biographical, Humorous / General Product Information.
This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne's vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences inside the clinic and as she comes to terms with life in the outside world.
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. 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." This bestselling Hollywood novel by the witty author of Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
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