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'Wishful Drinking is a touching and incisive account of bipolarity, addiction and motherhood.' Independent ‘No motive is pure. No one is good or bad – but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.' Carrie Fisher in Wishful DrinkingIn Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher told the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play aprincess in a little movie calledStar 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 Tayloras 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.Carrie Fisher's star-studded career included roles in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally. She was the author of four bestselling novels, Surrender in the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The Best Awful and Postcards from the Edge, which was made into a hit film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep. Carrie's experience with addiction and mental illness – and her willingness to talk honestly about them – made her a sought-after speaker and respected advocate. She was truly one of the most magical people to walk among us.

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Now her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her co-star, Harrison Ford. With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time – and what developed behind the scenes. Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.

This memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives you an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it’s like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty.Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that locked Wishful Drinking on the New York Times bestseller list for months, Shockaholic is the juicy account of Carrie Fisher’s life. Covering a broad range of topics—from never-before-heard tales of Hollywood gossip to outrageous moments of celebrity desperation; from alcoholism to illegal drug use; from the familial relationships of Hollywood royalty to scandalous run-ins with noteworthy politicians; from shock therapy to talk therapy—Carrie Fisher gives an intimate portrait of herself, and she’s one of the most indelible and powerful forces in culture at large today. Just as she has said of playing Princess Leia—“It isn’t all sweetness and light sabers”—Fisher takes readers on a no-holds-barred narrative adventure, both laugh-out-loud funny and poignant.

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.

'Smart and funny . . . the pages crackle with one-liners' Guardian'Who do I think I would've been if I hadn't been Princess Leia? Am I Princess Leia, or is she me?'This is Carrie Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time - and what developed behind the scenes. When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Now her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her co-star, Harrison Ford. In these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, Fisher ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.Readers love The Princess Diarist:'By the time you get through the book, if you didn't love her before, you will now.''Honest, witty, and a beautiful insight into her life behind the camera.''A "must have" for any Star Wars fan.'

** THE NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING CULT CLASSIC NOVEL **** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry **‘I don’t think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.’  Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope – and find work – back on the outside, she meets new patient Alex. Ambitious, good-looking in a Heathcliffish way and in the grip of a monumental addiction, he makes Suzanne realize that, however eccentric her life might seem, there’s always someone who’s even closer to the edge of reason.  Carrie Fisher’s bestselling debut novel is an uproarious commentary on Hollywood – the home of success, sex and insecurity – and has become a beloved cult classic.  ‘This novel, with its energy, bounce and generous delivery of a loud laugh on almost every page, stands as a declaration of war on two fronts: on normal and on unhappy’ STEPHEN FRY‘A single woman’s answer to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn . . . the smart successor to Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays’ Los Angeles Times  ‘A cult classic . . . A wonderfully funny, brash and biting novel’ Washington Post'A wickedly shrewd black-humor riff on the horrors of rehab and the hollows of Hollywood life' People'Searingly funny' Vogue

Die Nachricht des unerwarteten Todes von Carrie Fisher am 27. Dezember 2016 im Alter von nur 60 Jahren erschütterte nicht nur die Welt, sondern das gesamte Star Wars-Universum. Jahrelanger Drogenmissbrauch und psychische Probleme belasteten die Karriere einer sensiblen Frau, die zugleich als Prototyp des weiblichen Action-Stars in Hollywood galt. Wie auch Elizabeth Taylor und Shirley Temple, die schon früh Berühmtheit erlangten, zahlte Fisher einen hohen Tribut für ein Leben zwischen den Extremen.Als Fisher 1977 zum ersten Mal am Set von Star Wars die Rolle der Prinzessin Leia verkörperte, wirkte sie noch unschuldig, lebensfroh und experimentierfreudig. Niemand hätte zum Zeitpunkt der Dreharbeiten den überwältigenden Erfolg der Sternensaga erahnen können, der in einem wahren Kult-Imperium mündete. Charaktere wie Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, R2-D2 und natürlich Prinzessin Leia und Han Solo haben mittlerweile den Status von Archetypen der Popkultur erlangt. Das lag jedoch nicht nur am spannenden Drehbuch und der ideenreichen Umsetzung des Schöpfers George Lucas. Es war die Chemie zwischen den Darstellern, die der Space Opera einen ganz besonderen Reiz verlieh. Aufmerksame Zuschauer bemerkten schnell die geradezu magische Anziehungskraft, die zwischen der damals neunzehnjährigen Fisher und dem über zehn Jahre älteren Harrison Ford in der Rolle des Han Solo bestand. 40 Jahre nach dem Leinwanddebüt lüftet die Autorin das Geheimnis: Während der Dreharbeiten entwickelte sich zwischen den beiden Darstellern eine stürmische und leidenschaftliche Liebesaffäre, die nicht nur wegen des Altersunterschieds brisant war, sondern vor allem wegen der Tatsache, dass Ford zum damaligen Zeitpunkt verheiratet war.Das Tagebuch der Prinzessin Leia ist eine hoch emotionale Autobiografie, bei der Fisher ihr Leben Revue passieren lässt und der Öffentlichkeit erstmalig die alten Tagebücher aus dem Jahr 1977 zugänglich macht. Hier erlebt der Leser eine junge Frau - schwärmerisch, zärtlich und von Gefühlen ergriffen, die sie zuvor nie in dieser Intensität erfahren hat. Neben Impressionen von Dreharbeiten und sorgfältig ausgewähltem Fotomaterial berührt die hautnah miterlebbare Liebesgeschichte, die Star Wars in einem neuen (Sternen)-Licht erscheinen lässt. Carrie Fisher hätte ihren Fans kein schöneres Abschiedsgeschenk hinterlassen können.