It is a revealing look at the dangers-and delights-of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity. I want life to be art.' Although the story takes. At one point Suzanne admits, 'I dont want life to imitate reality. The film is right on target in its scathing portrait of Tinseltowns addictions including the addiction to unreality. The screenplay by Carrie Fisher is based on her 1987 semi- autobiographical novel of the same title. Postcards from the Edge, directed by Mike Nichols, is based on Carrie Fishers 1987 best-selling novel.

Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. This book, Postcards from the Edge of Carrie Fisher is savagely revealing and extremely funny. That included lots of success, stardom, sex, drugs, and insecurity. 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. The reading of the first novel by Carrie Fisher evoked the amazing irreverent humor that set up the lens through which she peeked at life in the 1980s. It was later adapted by Fisher herself into a motion. 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. Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel by Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. 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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