The Best Awful - Rilegato

Fisher, Carrie

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ISBN 10: 0684817365 ISBN 13: 9780684817361

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2004

Riassunto

Born into privilege and Hollywood royalty, Carrie Fisher has been a movie star, a bestselling author, and one of the hottest script doctors in Hollywood. Her tumultuous life has been fodder for her hilarious and often scathing novels: in POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE she turned her gimlet eye to drug addiction and rehab, SURRENDER THE PINK examined modern romance, and DELUSIONS OF GRANDMA explored the rocky terrain of pregnancy and motherhood. In her latest book, Carrie moves into the territory occupied by Sylvia Plath and Susanna Kaysen in a darkly funny portrait of a woman who survives a psychotic breakdown, a stay in 'the bin', and survives to tell all.

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Recensione:

'by turns hilarious and tragig, a riotous, wise-cracking journey from breakdown to recovery' GOOD BOOK GUIDE
‘"The Best Awful," [is] Ms. Fisher's most amusingly snarky book since "Postcards From the Edge" ... tartly funny, inviting readers to tag along on a wild manic ride ... fierce comic flair.’NEW YORK TIMES
'Fisher's best book since Postcards From the Edge... her fondness for criminal wordplay is allowed to run rampant, the better to signal the recklessness of its heroine. Thus... "I must continue to make ends meet, since I can't seem to make them poultry"'
The Scotsman 7/2

'There are so many reasons for adoring Fisher - the camp private life, the irrepressible spirit, those bagels!'
Observer 8/2
Carrie Fisher tells it like it is. Her voice is hilarious and original. The
Best Awful's account of a Hollywood mental breakdown is funny, perceptive,
engaging, touching - without ever veering into sentimentality - and honest
(though of course it's all entirely fictional). HELEN FIELDING
"I'd been looking for a beautifully written, hilarious romp about mental
illness for ages, and finally Carrie Fisher has come up trumps!"
GRAHAM NORTON
'Carrie Fisher's take on Hollywood is dark, hilarious and always entertaining.' HARPER'S BAZAAR
FOR HER PREVIOUS NOVELS
'Fisher has such a faultless eye and ear for her subjects that they crowd the page. Fisher knows what women are going through as they reach the millennium and offers in her raw, sharp novels a way of smiling through' SUNDAY TIMES
'Carrie Fisher writes like the natural heir to Dorothy Parker' DOUGLAS COUPLAND
'Happy-sad, perky-grave, sombre-bright - Fisher's latest novel is an attractive brew of melancholy, where love is a fragile vessel and families sail close to the wind' ELLE
'Carrie Fisher maps the female heart with high-spirited accuracy. She is very funny' WASHINGTON POST
'Carrie Fisher peels off coruscating one-liners with a hit rate that Groucho Marx would have been proud of' THE INDEPENDENT

‘ .....an extraordinary narrative of a personality on the rampage, delivered in a relentless stream of wisecracks which provides, among other things, a useful working definition of the term ”painfully funny” : almost too painful to read, but too funny to give up on’
Sunday Telelgraph

'wickedly funny' Heat

'No one knows the tarnished world of Hollywood better than Fisher, and she pitches into her targets with manic glee'
Mail on Sunday 27/3

'The new novel is a painful account of the highs and lows of clinical depression'
Sunday Telegraph 27/3

L'autore:

Carrie Fisher has been a director in her teens, an actor in her twenties (The STAR WARS trilogy, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, etc), a screenwriter and novelist in her thirties (POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, SURRENDER THE PINK).

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0684817365
• ISBN 13: 9780684817361
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400