cover image Survivor

Survivor

Christina Crawford. Jove Books, $4.5 (0pp) 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, criticism from those who failed to grasp the purpose of that memoir as a weapon against a serious social problem, etc.,'' cautioned PW. (Feb.)