About this title: The story of the tormented and glamorous star, Joan Crawford, struggling to survive in a cutthroat world, succumbing to a rage leading to alcoholism and child abuse.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S. A
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780425044445ISBN:0425044440
Description: Good. 0425044440 This mass market paperback book is in good shape! A solid, intact copy with some creasing of spine & wear on covers/edges--signs of having been read and enjoyed a time or two--BUT COMPLETELY INTACT! There is wear on corners and edges. SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a solid copy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkeley Books, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780425044445ISBN:0425044440
Description: Good. No Jacket. The book is very solid with unmarked pages. The top edge of the pages is soiled. The cover has minor shelf wear & moderate edge wear. The spine has a few creases. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow, New York
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780688033866ISBN:0688033865
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. 286 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Includes Illustrations. Dark grey cloth over boards with white lettering. Near-mint condition book in very good dust jacket. Book has name of previous owner and bookplate on first endpage, no other writing or marks. Light shelf wear to bottom of spine, all else exactly like new. DJ has... read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. cover and spine creased. pages slightly discolored. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc
Date Published: 1978
Description: Good in Good jacket. BOMC/Book Club. Used hardcover with dust jacket. Both are in good condition with light wear to dust jacket. read more
Description: Good. Christina Crawford becomes one of the only authors in publishing history to re-issue a number one best-seller. 1979 Berkley paperback edition. read more
"I read this book years ago (when I was a teen), and some of the things Joan Crawford did to her adopted child still stick with me. I'm not sure if it's all believable, or if it was a publicity stunt, but it did leave an impression, none the less. My mother gave me this book with the comment, "and you thought you had it bad". :) My mother must have been truly insightful, as every time I felt like whining when life wasn't totally fair, I would think of Crawford's children."
"I had actually forgotten I read this book. I don't read my autobiographies, I tend to find them poorly written and badly edited. This was no different. I find the same problems with all autobiographies - timelines are poorly defined, some moments are written with perfect clarity while others are glossed over with barely a description of any sort. Just because someone has a story to tell doesn't mean they know how to write it well."
"I grew up watching the Joan Crawford movies, my parents were fans. When I saw this book out, I had to snap it up and read it.
It was a very good book even if the content was not only surprising but upsetting.
To know a child has been abused and not much was done to help her is sad.
To know someone is such a well respected woman and is doing the abusing and getting away with it, got away with it, was/is criminal.
I'm glad Christina wrote the book so all could see the truth about her mother. I hope it was theraputic to her to get it written and have her story told.
Good book, I'd recommend this to anyone 18 or over.
"Joan Crawford is portrayed as a clean-freak obsessed with control - it's a good read. It also talks about Hollywood life in the 40's thru 60's which is very interesting."
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