Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Feb 2009 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Carrie Fisher

About this audiobook

The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.

Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It’s an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty—Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher—homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.

Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. Entertainment Weekly declared it “drolly hysterical” and the Los Angeles Times called it a “Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes.” This is Carrie Fisher at her best—revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.

Ratings and reviews

Very disappointed. It's just her rambling as if she's gossiping about her own life. Unless you're extremely interested in the not so interesting details of Carrie Fisher's life don't waste your money

I cannot believe I haven't listened to this book until now. It was on my wishlist and stupidly...I say stupidly because I bought the audiobook to listen to as I go to sleep. How daft was that??? Turns out completely daft because it's now 4am. I'm still awake, my stomach hurts & my eyes are bulging from laughing, guffawing & laugh-crying so hard while trying not to wake my children. I feel like I have done a workout. My abs are crunching. I keep reliving her stories, made spectacularly vivid by the fact that Carrie herself is doing the telling. I knew I liked her but this is 'beyond'. I intend to seek out every word she's ever written. What a genius!!!

Love, love, love this! I actually purchased this audio book on my own about a year ago because I knew it contained some of her in sites on being an addict. Audio book is absolutely funny and heart-warming. It's really a treat to hear Fisher's life as told by her in her voice. Purchase this. You will not regret it.

About the author

Carrie Fisher (1956–2016) became a cultural icon as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy. She starred in countless films, including Shampoo and When Harry Met Sally. She is the author of Shockaholic; Wishful Drinking (which became a hit Broadway production); and four bestselling novels, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The Best Awful, and Postcards from the Edge.