Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
Weller, Sheila2020
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In her 2008 bestseller, 'Girls Like Us', Sheila Weller gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. Now she turns her focus to one of the most loved, brilliant, and iconoclastic women of our time: the actress, writer, daughter, and mother Carrie Fisher. Weller traces Fisher's life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016. Her mother was the spunky and adorable Debbie Reynolds; her father, the heartthrob crooner Eddie Fisher. When Eddie ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, the scandal thrust little Carrie Frances into a bizarre spotlight, gifting her with an irony and an aplomb that would resonate throughout her life. We follow Fisher's acting career, from her debut in Shampoo, the hit movie that defined mid-1970s Hollywood, to her seizing of the plum female role in Star Wars, which catapulted her to instant fame.
Main title:
Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge / Sheila Weller.
Author:
Weller, Sheila, author
Imprint:
New York : Picador, 2020.
Collation:
432 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781250758255 (pbk)
Dewey class:
791.43028092791.43791.4302920 FIS
LC class:
PN2287.F495
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2805253
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