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Angel Fiction

Postcards from the Edge

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  • 1987 first published
  • 240 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (3 ratings)
  • 21 editions
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Carrie Fisher's Postcards from the Edge (1987) is an angel fiction novel. The story is set in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif. and California. It deals with motion picture industry, substance abuse, Treatment and actors.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 45 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 21 editions.

At about 240 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.

About Postcards from the Edge

When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she’s feeling like “something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting.” Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a “drug hospital.” Just as Fisher’s first film role—the precocious teenager in Shampoo—echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing, her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne’s vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences inside the clinic and as she comes to terms with life in the outside world. Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers—and delights—of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Motion picture industry
  • Substance abuse
  • Treatment
  • Hollywood, Los angeles, calif.
  • Actors
  • Industrie du cinéma
  • Films de fiction
  • Drug abusers
  • Acteurs de cinéma
  • Los Angeles
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • Rehabilitation

Quick answers

Who wrote Postcards from the Edge?

Postcards from the Edge was written by Carrie Fisher and first published in 1987.

What genre is Postcards from the Edge?

It is usually shelved as Angel Fiction.

How long is Postcards from the Edge?

The median edition has 240 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Postcards from the Edge?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Cottage, Get Shorty and Genuine Lies.

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