Boy on Fire - The Young Nick Cave

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

About the author

Mark Mordue is an Australian writer, journalist and editor. He is a co-winner of the 2014 Peter Blazey Fellowship, which recognises an outstanding manuscript in the fields of biography, autobiography or life writing, and also the author of Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip. He lives in Sydney.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Mordue
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2022
• EAN: 9781838953720
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-372-0
• No. of pages: 418
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Rock & Pop music, Australia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk, Popular Music