Delusions of Grandma

1994 novel by Carrie Fisher

Delusions of Grandma

Author| Carrie Fisher
Language| English
Genre| Autobiographical novel
Publisher| Simon & Schuster

Publication date

| 1994 (1st edition)
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (hardback)
Pages| 260 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN| 0-671-73227-7 (hardback edition)
OCLC| 29668034

Dewey Decimal

| 813/.54 20
LC Class| PS3556.I8115 D4 1994

Delusions of Grandma is a novel by actress and author Carrie Fisher that was published in 1994.[1]

Like most of Fisher's books, this novel is semi-autobiographical and fictionalizes events seemingly from her real life.[citation needed]

## Plot summary

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The book is about Cora Sharpe, a Hollywood screenwriter who is eight-and-a-half months pregnant by her boyfriend, an attorney named Ray, a relationship that has gone wrong. Concerned that she will not survive labor, Cora begins to write long letters to her unborn child. As she writes, she begins to recall the events that led to her current situation.

Her relationship with Ray became more complicated by the arrival of his mother, who came to live with them to recuperate from breast surgery. Cora's friend and co-writer, Bud, who has bipolar disorder, then moves in with them. When another friend, William, who is in the final stages of dying of AIDS, moves in, Ray decides that Cora's efforts to care for William during his final days on earth signals that he, Ray, is not her top priority in life.

As things get out of control, Cora returns home to her mother, a retired musical comedy star, and Bud follows. There is an in-depth look at the heartfelt expectations of Cora's zany mother, the show-bizzy grandma-to-be. Cora and Bud then join her mother in an inexplicable and madcap scheme to kidnap Cora's grandfather, who is stricken with Alzheimer's, from his nursing home and take him back to his hometown of Whitewright, Texas.

The story then concludes with the birth of Cora's child.[2][3]

## References

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1. ^ Fisher, Carrie (1994). Delusions of Grandma. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-73227-1.
2. ^ "DELUSIONS OF GRANDMA". Kirkus Reviews. February 1, 1994.
3. ^ Carrie Fisher (1995). Delusions of grandma. Internet Archive. Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0-671-73862-4.

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Carrie Fisher

Novels|

* Postcards from the Edge (1987)
* Surrender the Pink (1990)
* Delusions of Grandma (1993)
* The Best Awful There Is (2004)

Nonfiction books|

* Wishful Drinking (2008)
* Shockaholic (2011)
* The Princess Diarist (2016)

Related|

* Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
* Billie Lourd (daughter)
* Eddie Fisher (father)
* Debbie Reynolds (mother)
* Todd Fisher (brother)
* Joely Fisher (paternal half-sister)
* Tricia Leigh Fisher (paternal half-sister)

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