Boy on fire : the young Nick Cave / Mark Mordue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mordue, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cave, Nick, 1957-.

Cave, Nick.

Cave, Nick, 1957---Childhood and youth.

Rock musicians--Australia--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Australia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 418 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, England : Allen & Unwin, 2021.

Summary:

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 which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it 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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Rider

Such Is Life

King and Country

pt. II The Good Son

Man in the Moon

Down by the River

pt. III Sonny's Burning

The Word

Double Trouble

Zoo Music Girl

Boy Hero

pt. IV God's Hotel

Shivers

Flight from Death

Crime and Punishment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and discography.

ISBN:

9781838953706

1838953701

9781838953690

1838953698

OCLC:

1198974661

Publisher Number:

99988835186