# Boy on Fire

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- Authors: [Mark Mordue](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-mordue)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-03-03

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Boy on Fire

- Publisher: allen_unwin
- ISBN: 978-18-3895-372-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2022-03-03
- Language: en_GB