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Boy On Fire by Mark Mordue EPUB
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 a portrait of the artist as, first, a boy, and then as a young man. A deeply insightful work that 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 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 that 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.
Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.
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