Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge

Summary: Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisher's life, this work is an affectionate and even-handed portrayal of a woman whose unsurpassed honesty is a reminder of how things should be.

Record details

ISBN: 9780374282233
ISBN: 0374282234
Physical Description: print
402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-381) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: famous for simply being herself -- Hollywood baby -- A complicated childhood -- From Broadway to Beatty to Britain -- Princess Leia becomes the toast of young New York -- The fabulous life of the girl in the metal bikini -- "She burned like a bride" -- A writer who acts -- "When I love, I love for miles" -- "I am mentally ill. I can say that" -- The warrior in the war zone -- Working through anything -- A year from hell, a year of final kindness.