Books by Christina Crawford and Complete Book Reviews
Christina Crawford, Author Jove Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-515-10299-4
``Readers could be put off this second installment of an autobiography by the author's egocentric, self-pitying tone and complaints about the film based on her book Mommie Dearest , unsatisfactory accommodations and the stress of publicity tours,...
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Christina Crawford, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (268p) ISBN 978-1-55611-118-1
Succeeding Mommie Dearest and the novel Black Widow , which featured a character obviously based on her adoptive mother, Joan Crawford, this book continues the story of the author's life as a survivor. One's inclination is to sympathize with a woman
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Christina Crawford, Author, John E. Bradshaw, Foreword by Station Hill Press $12.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-88268-184-9
After briefly describing episodes of childhood abuse previously recounted in her 1978 book Mommy Dearest, as well as her 1981 stroke and subsequent recovery, Crawford goes on to look at the various reactions of abused and neglected children. They...
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