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Wishful drinking /

By: Fisher, Carrie
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Pocket books, c2008.Description: 163 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781847397836; 143915371XSubject(s): Fisher, Carrie | Actors -- United States -- Biography | Fisher, Carrie | Actors -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 792.02/8/092 | B
Summary:
Carrie Fisher reveals her personal struggle with alcoholism and mental illness, and describes what it was like growing up as the child of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.
In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres." Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction and weathering the wild ride of manic depression. It's an incredible tale - from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, and from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
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Carrie Fisher reveals her personal struggle with alcoholism and mental illness, and describes what it was like growing up as the child of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.

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In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres." Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction and weathering the wild ride of manic depression. It's an incredible tale - from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, and from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.

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