Product Description

Groundbreaking rock musician. Award winning actress. Perceptive songwriter and author. Mother. Wife of a rock god. Fashionista and trendsetter. Provocateur. In each and every one of these roles Courtney Love has demonstrated a wholehearted commitment to her art, and an intense drive and a lust for life which has made her a star and a celebrity icon but has also led her into some unwise, uncharted and even dangerous territory. Simultaneously candid and enigmatic, her mordant wit and vivid intelligence have been matched in intensity only by the extraordinary life she has led, from a bleak early childhood through great fame and terrible heartbreak to the present day.At times exhilarating and at times unsettling, this is a story told for the first time in "Dirty Blonde". Here are the unimaginable highs and the despairing lows of one of the most compelling and creative figures in the world of popular culture: a fierce and insightful woman with an unblinking world view and a determination to express herself no matter the cost. "Illuminating...A raw and intimate self-portrait of Love" - "Mirror". "Extraordinary and fascinating" - "Harper's Bazaar". ""Dirty Blonde" is like Love herself and her other work: determinedly provocative, captivatingly visual, aggressively honest" - "Observer".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13180 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Harpers Bazaar
`an extraordinary and fascinating scrapbook-style riffle through
the life of the singer, actress and former wife of Kurt Cobain.'

Observer
'Dirty Blonde is like Love herself and her other work:
determinedly provocative, captivatingly visual, aggressively honest.'

Observer
'A striking, occasionally beautiful record of 42 years lived at
full tilt'

Customer Reviews

Great Tribute TO A Star
Courtney Love has a bottom that most women would die for. This book tells us everything we all want to know about Ms Love...she is a real rock star.
A great singer - but I am not so sure about her movies. It is all about her co-stars.
In Sid & Nancy the brilliant Gary Oldman. In The Mayor Of Sunset Strip Kiefer Sutherland - and she gives great performances...but in Julie Johnson she is second-rate as is her co-srar and Shrek lookalike Bill Golodner.
I would love for Courtney to write an official autobiography.

Courtney Loved It
Brilliant biog of rock goddess Courtney Love. Ms Love is brilliant as lead singer with Hole , was fantastic as a sexy stripper and single mum in the movie JULIE JOHNSON , and will always be known as Kurts widow.
But this book explains why she desrves to be a MASSIVE star in her own right.
Courtney is the new Debbie Harry and the next Madonna.

Ok, but you'll find very little you didn't already know.
As a huge fan of Love's since the early 90's i was both excited at the prospect of a visual scrapbook type affair and perhaps the sneak peak of a few pictures we hadn't already seen.

Sadly all i found in this book was mostly illegible scrawlings - a tiny handful of real diary entries and mostly random half finished poems, statements, messy lyrics. Nothing too gripping. Infact personally the only interesing insight i found in this book was the collection of all the early hole posters Love created and some of the few real diary entries from around this time at very start of her music career.

Also all the factual scans of her school reports amongst other things were nothing already pre-published in the Poppy Z Brite biography.

Love shows very little of her true self in this book - also something i can't quite put my finger on, and this leaves you feeling disappointed. I can completely understand wanting to retain some privacy, but this books serves up nothing you didn't already know, hardcore fan or not. And thats if you can spend enough time squinting to make out what her scribbles actually say.

Overall, nice pictures, nice to flick through. But it has unltimately ended up on my shelf gathering dust.