• Postcards from the Edge

  • By: Carrie Fisher
  • Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
  • Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,142 ratings)

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Postcards from the Edge

By: Carrie Fisher
Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
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Publisher's summary

In a stunning literary debut, Carrie Fisher chronicles the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale, young film star and drug addict, who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. Carrie Fisher's reading of her first novel evokes the deliciously irreverent humor that formed the lens through which she looked at life in the '80s - stardom, drugs, success, sex, and insecurity.

©1987 Carrie Fisher (P)1988, 2015 Dove Books-On-Tape, Phoenix Books

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"Carrie's book is savagely funny and savagely revealing. It makes Moby Dick seem like a big, fat, dumb book." (Steve Martin)

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Postmodern autobiography?

I am impressed with how this is structured and what pieces of life she chose from bits of her daily life. It's definitely a window.

This book is not really fiction.

Carrie Fisher incessantly offers reasons why she is no hero, not even of Hollywood. She mocks her own celebrity as if to put boundaries up against it in pursuit of getting a real life, and she becomes the rebel Princess by accident.

Sorry, Carrie. You are a legend despite yourself.

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Great book

Carrie fisher's book was well written and funny. I enjoyed it a lot. it was well played.

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Loving Carrie Fisher

I Absolutely love listening to this book narrated by Carrie Fisher herself. Worth the listen!

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Ms Fisher kicked so much butt

loved hearing Carrie narrate it....she really spoke with so much enthusiasm it brought the book to life

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I would have given it 3.5 stars

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The book wasn't bad. It did feel kinda short. It was unclear who the main character was and it was hard to follow at times. It's not really a biography. It's a weird book. Not bad, not great. I'd be inclined to read some of her other books, though.

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I loved it

great book great story great reader love Postcards From The Edge. I also love Carrie Fisher so therefore I'm going to love anything that she writes or reads and the fact that it's a story about her makes it even better

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great book

I love her personality in the book. made me laugh while I listened. made cleaning the kitchen so much fun! haha

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Carrie has such a way with words

I loved it. I also love that Carrie narrated it. She is a true gem. I miss her

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lovely Carrie Fischer

Loved that Carrie Fischer narrated this book. Her honesty and sense of humor made the book a great one to listen too.

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Of interest

Good presentation about the thoughts of a successful film actress with problems dealing with her life and interactions in Hollywood. But I got a little bored by the end.

Presumably it some what based on her own life, before she became an accomplished writer.

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