Courtney Love The Real Story

by Brite, Poppy Z

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Simon & Schuster, 1997 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. ISBN:0684845067. Overstock mark Light shelfwear on jacket..

Book summary

Rock & roll survivor, feminist heroine, or (in Nirvana producer Steve Albini's memorable phrase) "psycho hosebeast"? Poppy Z. Brite's engrossing biography portrays Courtney Love, the controversial singer and spouse of the late Kurt Cobain, as a little of all of the above. After a traumatic childhood (she may have been dosed with LSD at the age of four by her biological father) with a succession of dismal father figures from her mother's succession of marriages, she spends her adolescence being placed in and absconding from a variety of reform schools and foster homes. Later, with the aid of an opportune trust fund, she starts a peripatetic existence between sundry cities, countries, and musicians, her objectives firmly fixed on becoming a star. Love's well-documented relationship with the emotionally fragile Cobain is explored from her point of view--in fact Brite's perspective is so Courtney-oriented that THE REAL STORY sometimes feels like dictation--and Cobain's suicide, and Love's reaction, are plausibly portrayed. Brite's background in horror story writing is well suited to relating this lurid saga in all its messy contradiction; though ultimately sympathetic to the singer, she leaves any conclusions about the origins of Love's single-minded ambition up to the reader.

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