Kirkus评论
While Nigel Dempster (Heiress, 1989) emphasized the pathetic side of jet-setting heiress Christina Onassis, Wright (Lillian Hellman, The Von Bulow Affair, etc.), despite his title, offers a kinder portrait: His Christina is generous, vivacious, and capable of genuine enjoyment as well as being needy, drug-addicted, and capricious. Born in 1950 to Aristotle Onassis and his wife Athina, Christina suffers through the disintegration of her parents' marriage and her father's affair with Maria Callas and marriage to Jackie Kennedy. As a teen, Christina resort-hops in search of the party of the moment; her father, meantime, schemes economically advantageous marriages and throws a fit when she ties the knot with Californian Joe Bolker. He launches an obsessive campaign to ruin the union--and succeeds, landing Christina back on the party circuit. After her mother, brother, and father die, Christina orchestrates a clever legal maneuver to gain control of the Onassis empire. She manages the company between marriages: to another Greek; to a Russian with suspected KGB connections; to Thierry Roussel, with whom she has a daughter. When she dies suddenly at age 37, there are whispers of suicide and of barbituate overdose--nothing is proven. Although the narrative is workmanlike at best, Wright offers up a mildly entertaining spin on the global party circuit, courtesy of a strong-willed woman who loved to dance almost as much as she loved to spend. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.