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Product Identifiers

PublisherAtlantic Books, The Limited

ISBN-101838953698

ISBN-139781838953690

eBay Product ID (ePID)21050421622

Product Key Features

Book TitleBoy on Fire : the Young Nick Cave

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory & Criticism, Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts

Publication Year2021

GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMark Mordue

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight29 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Reviews"A brilliant and thoroughly research account of how Nick Cave became the man and the artist he is today." Headstuff, "Nuanced and unflinching, this conversational collection of stories and reminiscences paints a compelling picture of Cave, drawing on the friendships and creative influences that helped shape one of Australia's most enigmatic sons." -- The Age, "Mordue's book offers total immersion in the artist's early years...paints a vivid portrait of an artist in the process of becoming." Uncut, "[An] expertly detailed account of the prodigious entertainer's early years. All the relevant voices have their say, creating a wonderfully alive picture of this tumultuous time...Anyone looking to join the dots of Cave's music and career will appreciate this work, as will those interested in how life shapes art." -- Bookseller and Publisher, "[T]he kind of rock biography that makes all music writers feel inadequate by comparison. Ostensibly the story of Nick Cave's formative years, it is so beautifully constructed that one is not just delivered besides the young Cave, but also next to the modern version." The New Cue, "There is plenty of humour in Boy on Fire. ..and beautiful moments, as well as delinquency and sadness...Hopefully Mordue will write a follow-up to this highly engaging biography very soon." Buzz Mag, "Forensically researched, Mordue's book riffs hard on Cave's profound Australianness, on the rivers and scrub and incipient violence that Cave's writing later mixed with the gothic atmospheres of the American south. . . . Mordue talks to huge numbers of witnesses over a decade, fleshing out the familiar punk rock story with a rich art historical perspective, and deep dives into Cave's obsessions with works such as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment . . . . Mordue's great strength is that he is not a professional biographer, detached and omniscient; he is a writer with his own stylistic flourishes who intimately understands the milieu he is writing about." Guardian

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal782.42166092

Table Of ContentAuthor's Note Prologue: The Journalist and the Singer Part I: The Rider Such Is Life King and Country Part II: The Good Son Man in the Moon Down by the River Part III: Sonny's Burning The Word Double Trouble Zoo Music Girl Boy Hero Part IV: God's Hotel Shivers Flight from Death Crime and Punishment Epilogue: The Singer and the Song Acknowledgments Endnotes Selected Bibliography

SynopsisThe first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. An intensely beautiful, profound, and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work that charts his family, friends, influences, milieu, and, most of all, his music, the book reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become. A powerful account of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark rivers and ghost gums of country-town Australia to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet, and manic energy of the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb. Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement., The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer Mark Mordue. An intensely beautiful, profound, and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work that charts his family, friends, influences, milieu, and, most of all, his music, the book reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become. A powerful account of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark rivers and ghost gums of country-town Australia to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet, and manic energy of the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb. Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.

LC Classification NumberML420.C39