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The Best Awful
The Best Awful
Author: Carrie Fisher
Suzanne Vale, the Hollywood actress whose drug addictions and rehab rigors were so brilliantly dissected by Carrie Fisher in Postcards from the Edge, is back. And this time she has a new problem: She's had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay. He forgot to tell her, and she forgot to notice. What's worse, Suzanne's not ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780684809137
ISBN-10: 0684809133
Publication Date: 1/6/2004
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 4
This book chronicles the terrible spiral of a manic depressive who decides she no longer wishes to take her medication. It chronicles her descent into madness that seems exciting and alive to her but is fraught with danger and excess. I found it a fantastic read.
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Helpful Score: 3
This novel is a hilarious, occasinally tragic, but always captivating story of Suzanne, a celebrity talk show host. She has an aging starlet mom, a six-year old daughter and a gay ex-husband. Suzanne also happens to be bi-poler. The book is filled with dry-wit and humor.....compared to Suzanne, you can't help but think that your own life isn't too bad after all!
Carrie Fishers' writing can be very "bitting" at times and you either love her or hate her. If you like to take a peek at the tabloids in the supermarket, than you will love this laugh-out-loud book!
Carrie Fisher is also the author of the "searingly funny" novels POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE and SURRENDER THE PINK.
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AWESOME makes me want to be thema and louise this is that type of book
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Reading this is the next best thing to actually being bipolar. It's a wild ride through Fisher's psychosis.
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funny, touching, witty - typical of Fisher's writing.
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Carrie Fisher's The Best Awful returns Postcards from the Edge fans to the often hilarious, occasionally tragic, but always captivating world of Suzanne Vale, a bi-polar, celebrity talk show host with a six-year old daughter, a gay ex-husband, an aging starlet mother, and an unbreakable will to survive. After Suzanne stops taking her medication, Fisher treats us to the wild, hysterical ride that follows Suzanne's manic episodes, including a search for Oxycontin in Tijuana with her tattoo artist and a new house guest in the form of Hoyt, a clinically depressed patient Suzanne picks up at her psychopharmacologist's office. Even after the inevitable psychotic break lands Suzanne at Shady Lanes, where she's the "latest loony to hit the bin," Fisher never deviates from her trademark wit and uncanny ability to find truth in every irony:


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