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Dirty Blonde by Courtney Love

Dirty Blonde

The Diaries of Courtney Love

by Courtney Love

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  • Oct 2006, 304 pages
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Simultaneously candid and enigmatic, Love has a mordant wit and vivid intelligence 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.

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"Diaries" is something of a misnomer, as "scrapbooks" would more accurately describe the collection of old photographs, hand-scrawled song lyrics and other documents that fill these pages." - PW.

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