Christina Crawford

Christina Crawford, hija adoptiva de Joan Crawford, fue presentada al mundo como una idílica princesa de Hollywood. La realidad que cuenta este libro fue bien distinta. Una madre solitaria, controladora, incluso despiadada, hizo de su vida una pesadilla. Una feroz batalla de voluntades que supuso para Christina una lucha por su independencia.

When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the façade of Christina's relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford. Christina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate little princess. But at home, her lonely, controlling, even ruthless mother made her life a nightmare. A fierce battle of wills, their relationship could be characterized as an ultimately successful, for Christina, struggle for independence. She endured and survived, becoming the voice of so many other victims who suffered in silence, and giving them the courage to forge a productive life out of chaos.