The Best Awful: A Novel Paperback - 2005

Name: The Best Awful: A Novel
Price: 9.96 USD
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Author: Fisher, Carrie
ISBN: 9780743269308

by Fisher, Carrie

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Inspired by Fisher's own emotional battles, "The Best Awful" relates the story of a woman who is on the verge of, in the depths of, and in recovery from a psychotic breakdown.

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Title The Best Awful: A Novel
Author Fisher, Carrie
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Condition UsedGood
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
Date 2005-01-05
Bookseller's Inventory # 31UE340020V6_ns
ISBN 9780743269308 / 0743269306
Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 8.44 x 5.49 x 0.7 in (21.44 x 13.94 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005270904
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

This sequel to the bestselling Postcards from the Edge contains Carrie's Fisher's trademark intelligence and wit that brought Postcards to the Hollywood movie screen.

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.

Lonely for a man herself, Suzanne decides that her medication is cramping her style, and she goes off her meds--with disastrous results. The "manic" side of the illness convinces her it would be a good idea to get a tattoo, cut off her hair, and head to Mexico with a burly ex-con and a stash of OxyContin. As she wakes up in Tijuana, the "depressive" side kicks in, leading Suzanne through a series of surreal psychotic episodes before landing her in a mental hospital. 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 roller-coaster ride through the dizzying highs and crushing lows of manic depression, delivered with fast and furious wit.

First line

Suzanne Vale had a problem, and it was the one she least liked thinking about: She'd had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay.

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Citations

Ingram Advance, 01/01/2005, Page 67
New York Times, 03/13/2005, Page 32

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