Rufus wainwright biography book

I was interested in this book because I am a big fan of Rufus Wainwright, and enjoy learning about the lives of my favorite artists, and how their life events may have impacted their art.

I enjoyed the book for that reason as well, but for that reason only. Besides the subject, the book was not very well written, containing a lot of strange and poorly-crafted sentence structure. Kirk Lake also seemed to paint Rufus in a somewhat negative light, giving most of his albums and works mediocre reviews, which made me wonder sometimes why he even bothered to write a biography about an artist he supposedly loved at all, if all he was going to do was criticize him.

Additionally, there was so much history and background information on Rufus' family, which I did enjoy, that the title really should have been something more like, "A Biography on the Wainwright and McGarrigle family," instead of making it seem like it would be