“Courtney Love is always surrounded by chaos, triumph, pain and charm. She was presented as an adventurer, a saint, a comic book character, a heroine, a martyr and a role model." This is a true story - the truth behind the lies and a celebration of one of the most popular alternative icons of the late 20th century - and it is no less controversial. From a chaotic childhood to a rebellious striptease youth in Taiwan to rock stardom, from a marriage with drug problems to motherhood and bloody tragedy, nothing is missing. Featuring more than thirty photographs, including some previously unpublished and many from private collections, and with excerpts from Courtney Love's letters and diaries, this biography is the first candid account of the woman who seems determined to become a modern-day Marilyn Monroe.