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Informationen zum Autor Nick Cave , perhaps best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, is an artist whose output is prolific and ever-evolving. Over a creative career that spans more than 40 years, Cave has worked across a diverse number of disciplines; as a solo and collaborative musician, a score composer, a writer of books, film scripts and his weekly mailer, The Red Hand Files , and more recently as a ceramic artist. His debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel , was published in 1989. His second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. The Sick Bag Song, a cocktail of poetry, travel and memoir, was published in 2015; and Stranger than Kindness, an autobiographical journey in images and words, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller when it was released in 2020. His 2022 book, Faith, Hope and Carnage , an extended conversation with Observer journalist, Seán O'Hagan, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Nick Cave was born in Warracknabeal, Australia. He lives between London and Brighton with his wife, fashion designer Susie Cave. @nickcaveofficial | nickcave.com Sean O'Hagan grew up in Northern Ireland. In the 1980s he worked as a music journalist for NME and in the 1990s he began writing on culture for The Times . He has interviewed many major artists, writers and musicians, including Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin and Joan Didion. In 2003, he was named Interviewer of the Year in the British Press Awards. He currently works as a feature writer for the Observer and is photography critic for the Guardian . Klappentext Faith, Hope & Carnage is a thoughtful book about Nick Cave's inner life. Drawn from over forty hours of interviews between Nick Cave and journalist Sean O'Hagan, it is a meditation on big ideas including, faith, art, music, grief and much more.From a place of considered reflection it offers ladders of hope and inspiration. Vorwort A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more - from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave Zusammenfassung A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more - from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave...
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Illuminating . . . a great deal of beauty in Cave's descriptions of the "strange reckless power" that comes when the worst has happened . . . if it meets a need for Cave, it also feels like a gift to the reader Sunday Times
