Status
Available
Call number
Call number
B Cra
Collection
Publication
Berkley (1979), Edition: Older Edition, 312 pages
Description
Joan Crawford's daughter exposes the actress as an alcoholic and a child abuser and describes the grim reality of her childhood with a mother who was ruthless, unstable, and violent.
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Original publication date
1978
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LibraryThing member citygirl
This book fascinated me as a kid. Can you imagine growing up the child of a slightly insane Hollywood icon? Christina tells a tale of madness, rebellion, narcissism, sabotage, alienation, luxury and deprivation. This book reads like candy.
LibraryThing member amberella
NO WIRE HANGERS! Crazy book. I couldnt put it down. "True" story of Joan Crawfords adopted daughters abusive upbringing.
LibraryThing member angela.k.winters
I simply could not put this book down. It was just one thing after another with how mean that woman could be. I had a bad relationship with my mother, and I felt Christina's pain. This is definitely a book that everyone should read.
LibraryThing member jennannej
Joan Crawford is one of thos old actresses I don't know much about and haven't seen many of her films, so it was sometimes hard to picture her when I read about her in this book written by her daughter.
Sometimes a hard book to read. Christina (or Tina) had a strange love/hate relationship with her
Some of the book sounded a bit too much like whining: "I had such a hard life..." That's what you get with autobiographies though!
Sometimes a hard book to read. Christina (or Tina) had a strange love/hate relationship with her
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mother. She portrayed herself as the perfect child, always trying to please her mother and not succeeding only because of her mother's unrealistic expectations and drunkenness. But you've got to wonder if she really could have been such the "Perfect" child she described. I don't doubt that it was hard to be the daughter of a movie star and a movie star that sounded as though she had some sort of self-worth issues. Some of the book sounded a bit too much like whining: "I had such a hard life..." That's what you get with autobiographies though!
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LibraryThing member JHemlock
Oh the joys of not only being famous but being bat nuts crazy. Sad and unfortunate that children who are born into this world reap the whirlwind their parents created.
Pages
312