Boy On Fire Av Mark Mordue

<p>An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ''n'' roll, <i>Boy on Fire</i> 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.<br><br>A powerful account of a singular, uncompromising artist, <i>Boy on Fire</i> 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. <br><br><i>Boy on Fire</i> is a stunning biographical achievement.</p>