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Book Description
Cave's only novel to date takes on the southern gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young pContinue
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Luciferasi said on Aug 18, 2009 | Add your feedback
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For The Fans
If you like Cave's dark lyrics and his tortured portraits of the American South that he frequently depicts musically, for example his Henry's Dream album, then you would probably love this book.
It is a densely written tragedy of fundamentalist religion that plays out in the Deep South ... (continue)
Ramnagel said on May 28, 2009 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 320 Pages
- Edition: Second Edition
- ISBN-10: 1880985721
- ISBN-13: 9781880985724
- Publisher: 2.13.61
- Pub date: Mar 26, 2003
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Dense like a molasses pool.
I don't know, I think that not everyone can be an all-around artist. If you're a good painter, maybe you're not gonna be a good sculptor and if you're a good musicians, who knows, it might be you're not gonna be a good writer, despite being able to write great songs.
And the Ass Saw the Angel, ... (continue)
I don't know, I think that not everyone can be an all-around artist. If you're a good painter, maybe you're not gonna be a good sculptor and if you're a good musicians, who knows, it might be you're not gonna be a good writer, despite being able to write great songs.
And the Ass Saw the Angel, to me, looked like a long Cave trip into his favourite Southern Gothic imagery and unfortunately, little else. The style is exceedingly mannered, even camp at times, not to mention that my suspension of disbelief went tits up after roughly twenty pages, not because of overt deus ex machinas or anything, just because it's really too dense, too... too much, as if the whole story took place behind a curtain of translucency.
It's like as he considered, before writing, "What does people expect of Nick Cave? Ah, that's it. Let's go!"
His songs still rock, though, maybe because they usually last no more than six minutes rather than two hundred and twenty pages.
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