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

By: Deborah Spungen

Published September 29th 1996 by Ballantine Books (first published 1983)

Category: Biography

Pages: 408 pages

ISBN: 9780449911419

Description:
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 destroyed her parents' marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.