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Wishful drinking

"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 ninete...

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Main Author: Fisher, Carrie.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2008.
Subjects:
Fisher, Carrie.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
Audiobooks.
Summary: "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"--Container.
Item Description: "Unabridged"--Container.
In container (15 cm.).
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 3 sound discs (ca. 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9780743597173
0743597176
Author Notes: Carrie Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California on October 21, 1956 to singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. At the age of 15, she played a debutante in the Broadway musical Irene and appeared in her mother's Las Vegas nightclub act. At the age of 17, she appeared in her first movie, Shampoo. Her other movies include Hannah and Her Sisters, When Harry Met Sally, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. She was best-known for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the Star Wars movie franchise.

Her first novel, Postcards from the Edge, was awarded the Los Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel. Her other books include Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, Shockaholic, Wishful Drinking, and The Princess Diarist. She wrote the screenplay for the movie Postcards from the Edge. She died after suffering from a heart attack on December 27, 2016 at the age of 60.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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