Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well,
sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever
memoir. In
Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman
stage 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.