Wishful Drinking (Unabridged) Wishful Drinking (Unabridged)

Wishful Drinking (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.

Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It’s an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty—Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher—homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.

Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. Entertainment Weekly declared it “drolly hysterical” and the Los Angeles Times called it a “Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.” This is Carrie Fisher at her best—revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
CF
Carrie Fisher
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
03:06
hr min
RELEASED
2009
February 17
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
163.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Dreamerboy13 ,

Tragically Hilarious

Brutally honest, shamelessly vulnerable, filled with robust twists between hilarity, tragedy, sex, mental health, substance abuse, and the courage to be you. Laugh, cry, and rage with Carrie Fisher’s charming self-deprecation and modest ego you’d expect from Hollywood royalty. The entire book is like listening to an old friend.

Duckielane ,

Heartbreaking and hilarious

I would 100 percent want this audiobook if I got stuck on a desert island.

DGSawtell ,

Typical Carrie Humor.

Iv’e enjoyed this more than once.

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