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The Best Awful There Is (retitled The Best Awful as a paperback), is a 2004 novel by actress and author Carrie Fisher. It is a sequel to her debut novel Postcards from the Edge. Like most of Fisher's books, this novel is semi-autobiographical and fictionalizes events from her real life.
Jan 1, 2004 · The Best Awful takes on Carrie's experience not only with her diagnosed bipolar disorder* but also the fact that her husband has left her... for another man. There are flashing moments of brilliance in this work which brings back Suzanne Vale, our heroine from Postcards....
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Jan 5, 2005 · When we left Suzanne Vale at the end of Carrie Fisher’s bestselling Postcards from the Edge, she had survived drug abuse, rehab, and Hollywood celebrity. The Best Awful takes Suzanne back to the edge with a new set of troubles—not the least of which is that her studio executive husband turned out to be gay and has left her for a man.
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Based on a truant's story, "The Best Awful" is Carrie Fisher's most powerful and revealing novel: hilarious, moving, and fully informed by the wisdom of a true...
With the help of her movie star mom, a circle of friends, and even her ex-husband, she begins the long journey back to sanity.The Best Awful is by turns highly comic and darkly tragic, a...
- Carrie Fisher
- Simon and Schuster, 2005
- reprint
- The Best Awful: A Novel, Volume 2
Jan 6, 2004 · 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.
The Best Awful is by turns highly comic and darkly tragic, a roller-coaster ride through the dizzying highs and crushing lows of manic depression, delivered with fast and furious wit.
