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

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Record Number 837259
ISBN 9781460759646 (hardback)
Author Mordue, Mark, 1960- author.
Title Boy on fire : the young Nick Cave / Mark Mordue.
Publisher/Date Sydney, NSW : Fourth Estate, 2020.
©2020
Pagination etc. xiii, 418 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note "The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is the story 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. As well as a powerfully compelling biography of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a fascinating social and cultural biography, a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark river and ghost gums of Wangaratta, to the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb, right through to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and the manic, wild energy of nights at the Crystal Ballroom." -- Publisher's website.
Subject - Name Cave, Nick, -- 1957-Childhood and youth
Cave, Nick, -- 1957-
Subject Rock musicians -- Australia -- Biography
Biographies.
Shelf Location 784.42166 CAVE
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