num_pages: 163
description: In Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres. Alas aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo) Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. It's an incredible talefrom having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
language: English
title: Wishful Drinking
publisher: Simon & Schuster