Detour: A Hollywood Tragedy by Cheryl Crane with Cliff Jahr

Detour: A Hollywood Tragedy

My life with Lana Turner, my mother

by Cheryl Crane with Cliff Jahr

Michael Joseph, 1988, ISBN 0718130693, black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, pages age-toned, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing, creasing and chips (see photographs)

"As Cheryl was brought to trial for the murder of her mother's lover, the spotlight of the world media fell on this child of a Hollywood megastar.  It was one of the most shocking and scandalous Hollywood tragedies ever.  Now, thirty years later, Cheryl relates for the first time what really happened on that horrifying night, in a gripping and heartrending account of the events that led up to Stompanato's killing and its nightmarish consequences.
Cheryl's story is one of the pleasure and pain of growing up as a Hollywood 'star baby'; of going to school with Christina Crawford and playing with Liza Minelli; of having a film-star mother who gave her everything but her time; and of enduring a series of 'uncles' and stepfathers, of whom some ignored her, some lied to her - and one repeatedly raped her.  It is, as Cheryl puts it, the story of 'why a young life of promise and privilege made a detour through hell.'"