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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mordue, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock musicians--Australia--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Cave, Nick, 1957-.

Cave, Nick.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : 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. Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Author'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

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781838953713

183895371X

OCLC:

1235600107