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There's a point in this headlong novel at which Suzanne Vale (read author Carrie Fisher) finally somersaults into the Mount Doom of her dilemmas. This is not long after she realizes at last that going off the medication for her manic depression was a mistake. For one thing, that was what let her shoot at top speed, flinging one-liners all the way, to that place in her head where it seemed like a simply terrific idea--terrific!--to get a tattoo, cut off her hair and convert to Judaism, preferably Orthodox, though not before heading to Mexico with...
What we have here is a sequel to Postcards from the Edge, Fisher's 1987 autobiographical debut novel about the emotional perils of growing up in Hollywood as the daughter of two big names (names like, say, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds). In each book Suzanne careers gamely into crisis--a drug addiction then, a bipolar crack-up now, not unlike the one Fisher suffered in 1997. This time she also has a concerned ex-husband who has left her for a man, and a beloved little daughter who may be starting to prefer the company...
...immensely popular 2000 novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier created a fictional backstory for a famous 17th century work of art. In her new book, The Lady and the Unicorn (Dutton; 250 pages), she has created a fictional backstory for a famous 15th century work of art. It would seem the author is only too happy to be pegged as reliably formulaic. This will no doubt attract fans of the earlier novel (the movie adaptation of which is now in theaters), but it also invites inevitable comparisons, and in this regard, the new book stumbles...
DIED. OLIVIA GOLDSMITH, 54, social satirist whose debut novel, The First Wives Club, became a best-selling revenge fantasy for women dumped by their husbands for younger second wives; from a heart attack while under anesthesia during plastic surgery; in New York City...
...global outbreak of 1918 that killed an estimated 60 million people, have precipitated some of the greatest die-offs in history. We've all had the flu, of course, but those few days off from work with the sniffles are a completely different illness from that caused by a novel influenza against which we have no immunity. Without antiviral medications or a vaccine, a new influenza strain could kill you in days...