Postcards from the Edge
by Carrie Fisherliterary work· published 1987
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When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she’s feeling like “something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting.” Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a “drug hospital.” Just as Fisher’s first film role—the precocious teenager in Shampoo—echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing, her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne’s vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences inside the clinic and as she comes to terms with life in the outside world. Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs.
Adaptations (1)
Postcards from the Edge was adapted into a 1990 film.
Postcards from the Edge1990 · film · 101 min · dir. Mike Nichols · IMDb ↗A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
