Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge Audiobook (Free)

An amazingly candid biography of the remarkably candid-and brilliant-Carrie Fisher

In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller-with heart and a profound sense for the times-gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. Today she converts her focus to one of the most loved, amazing, and iconoclastic ladies of our time: the actress, writer, daughter, and mother Carrie Fisher.

Weller traces Fisher’s existence from her Hollywood royalty about Carrie Fisher: A Existence on the Advantage origins to her untimely and shattering loss of life after Christmas 2016. Her mom was the spunky and lovable 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 existence.

We follow Fisher’s performing career, from her debut in Hair shampoo, the hit movie that defined mid-1970s Hollywood, to her seizing from the plum feminine role in Celebrity Wars, which catapulted her to quick popularity. We explore her long, complex relationship with Paul Simon and her fairly peaceful years using the skill agent Bryan Lourd. We witness her startling leap-on the pumps of a near-fatal overdose-from celebrity to highly praised, bestselling author, the Dorothy Parker of her place and period.

Weller sympathetically reveals the conditions that Fisher lived with: serious bipolar disorder and an inherited medication addiction. Still, despite crises and overdoses, her life’s work-as an actor, a novelist and memoirist, a script doctor, a hostess, and a friend-was prodigious and unique. As you of her best friends said, “I almost want the expression ‘one of the kind’ didn’t can be found, because it applies to Carrie within a deeper way than it pertains to others.”

Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisher’s life, Carrie Fisher: A Life over the Edge can be an empathic and even-handed portrayal of a female who-as Princess Leia, but mostly as herself-was a feminist heroine, one who died at the same time when we require her blazing, curing honesty more than ever.