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A darkly humorous story about a woman on the verge of, in the middle of, and recovering from a psychotic breakdown.
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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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You entered the hospital broken, found some other like broken patient people, and once in their company, looked down on the other more pathetic inhabitants of the bin you shared, those flying even lower than you and your low-flung co-conspirators...An insider's look at the Hollywood most of us only read about in supermarket checkout lines, The Best Awful doesn't strive to be anything other than what it is--a rambunctious, honest, wise-cracking trip to rock bottom and back again. Supporting characters are just that, a backdrop against whom Suzanne hopes to find a plausible sense of self. For readers who can accept this novel for what it is, The Best Awful promises over 250 pages of uninhibited entertainment. --Gisele Toueg, Amazon.com
People No-holds-barred humor and snappy banter.
Vanity Fair Carrie Fisher [is] one of our most painfully hilarious correspondents from the edge of sanity.
Vanity Fair Carrie Fisher [is] one of our most painfully hilarious correspondents from the edge of sanity.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0743257200
- ISBN 13 9780743257206
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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