Boy on Fire

A brilliant and soulful biography following the formative years of one of today's most acclaimed singer-songwriters: Nick Cave. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, revealing how he shaped his future self. It is also a fascinating social and cultural biography, a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place.

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.

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Mark Mordue

Klappentext

A brilliant and soulful biography of one of today's most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Nick Cave.

Zusammenfassung
A brilliant and soulful biography of one of today's most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Nick Cave.