About this title: Having conquered rehab and romance, bestselling novelist Carrie Fisher has launched an expedition into the wilds of modern maternity, capturing its absurdity and ambivalence with singular deftness. Pregnant screenwriter Cora has taken to writing lengthy letters to her unborn child, and it's small wonder why. For that age-old script 'family values' ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780671732271ISBN:0671732277
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 260 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780671732271ISBN:0671732277
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. The dust jacket is shelf worn and there is a 1/8" closed tear on the top rear corner. The book is not marked and the binding is tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780671732271ISBN:0671732277
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 260 p. Audience: General/trade. FINE; PRISTINE; ALMOST BRAND NEW! Tight binding; No spine crease; Interior pages clean & crisp; DJ is FINE w/VERY mild edgewear! IMPRESSIVE! read more
"Tried slogging my way through this one but I've tried other Carrie Fisher books and I just find myself not relating to or caring much about her characters. With the superlative ratings out there from other readers, I kept pursuing it long after I was ready to give it up, but kept thinking I'd get to a place where I started loving it...it still hadn't happened about 100 pages in when I figured out I read for enjoyment so why make myself read it - it's not as though it's a class assignment requiring a book report to be turned in!"
"I suppose it's possible to write more thinly veiled reality as fiction, in theory. Even if I hadn't always suspected her of writing about herself, a recent article on script doctors mentioned her as one of the most respected. Nor is one surprised to see Meryl Streep acknowledged as a friend when one knows that Meryl Streep played the Carrie role in Postcards From the Edge. It's fun reading the acknowledgments when you know you'll recognize some of the names and be able to attach them to characters. (Meryl I would guess became Joan, Bryan became Ray, Billie became Esme became Lily, and Debbie became Vivian). The thing that makes Fisher fun to read is not her plotting. There is no plotting in the traditional sense. It would seem that she takes several episodes from her life, changes the names and some of the characteristics, and the tries to make everything as witty as possible. Why not? Who among us does not wish to constantly rewrite our lives into something more amusing? We all want the chance to go back and put in the thing we should have said. She isn't cruel about it. I don't think her child's father could find much to complain about in what she wrote about him. Even when she describes the way he dumped her she makes no effort to be mean about it. That's part of what I like about her. She behaves largely like my friends, a little bit older, a different childhood, a life still revolving around Hollywood, but the kind of life where you don't hate someone just because the relationship didn't work out. The kind of life where you stay in touch with former lovers (at least some of them) and spend an awful lot of time talking everything over with friends. That's one of the things I feel as though I've lost since I've moved up here. Far less time talking for the sake of talking. Everyone here has to be doing something. Croquet is about the least I can get them to agree to. It lets Ginny and Mike and David enjoys the thrill of competition while the rest of us laze around and chat. A Carrie Fisher book is a conversation I'd like to having. The sort of kiwi (as she calls it) where you talk to someone every day and just pick up where you left off. A conversation where you don't talk about the big things, everybody already knows about that, but about the smaller things. How it all makes you feel, what color it is, what the empty spaces feel like. There are celebrities you want to sleep with, celebrities you want to have lunch with, and celebrities you want to be pals with. I'd love to be friends with Carrie Fisher. And reading her books I have the delightful experience of feeling that I am her friend"
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