And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
 

And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder

by Deborah Spungen

For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control--who almost... (read more)

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Cutie Calamity
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This book was an intimate account of Nancy and her life, where most memoirs usually make her look like an annoying junky groupy that dragged Sid down. It gave her a personality most recollections of that era don't. She was a troubled girl that was doomed from the get go, and what her life amounted to was really sad. I've known too many people like this and it really made me nostalgic in a bad way, but I'm glad to know more about the great love affair that was Sid & Nancy then what Sid's...

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