There is, you can't help feeling, something ludicrous about a biography of someone who has attained the ripe old age of 32; but Poppy Z Brite is a livewire writer, and no one could accuse Courtney Love of being dull, so this is actually a surprisingly entertaining little volume, even if it sets out quite deliberately - the two are friends in real life - to give a sympathetic view of Love's life, particularly the recent part where she has, according to Brite, "grown up". Much of the book, as you might expect, is taken up with the Kurt Cobain part of the story, and a sad part it is, too, with all its angry, pointless agressive-negative vibes - but there's more to Courtney Love than the grieving widow role which was forced on her after Cobain's suicide, as her highly-praised performance in the Milos Forman film The People vs Larry Flynt demonstrated.
