Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and
is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The
Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received
as their best work ever. Cave's body of work also covers a wider
range of media and modes of expression including film score
composition, ceramic sculpture and writing novels. Over the last
few years his The Red Hand Files website and 'In Conversation' live
events have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct
relationships with his fans.
Sean O'Hagan is an award-winning journalist who has
interviewed many major artists, writers and musicians over the last
four decades. He currently works as a feature writer for the
Observer and is photography critic for the Guardian.
An extraordinary, uplifting book . . . This is a book you could dip
into if you had no knowledge of Cave at all, just to find someone
unafraid to ask all the big questions: what is grief? What is
forgiveness? . . . Everyday carnage has brought forth a book of
hope and freedom and life * * Daily Telegraph * *
This beautiful book is a lament, a celebration, a howl, a secular
prayer, a call to arms, a meditation & an exquisite articulation of
the human condition. It will take your breath away -- RACHEL CLARKE
* * Observer * *
Illuminating . . . a great deal of beauty in Cave's descriptions of
the "strange reckless power" that comes when the worst has happened
. . . if it meets a need for Cave, it also feels like a gift to the
reader * * Sunday Times * *
An absolutely wonderful book. I don't think I've ever read so
integrated and searching an engagement with how faith works, how
creativity works, and how grief is bound up with both -- ROWAN
WILLIAMS
A masterpiece * * The Age * *
Faith, Hope and Carnage redefines the potential potency of a
memoir, creating a bold, brave and brilliant book that deserves to
be read, reread and cherished as an illuminating reflection of how
we haven't developed the vocabulary to adequately explore death and
its aftermath * * Irish Times * *
Ultimately enriching . . . suffused with love, teeming with ideas *
* Guardian * *
The most compelling book of the year - raw pain and struggle
thought through and explored with rare courage * * New Statesman,
Books of the Year * *
Immensely eloquent and wise . . . a tender guide to the
transformative potential of grief * * Telegraph, Best Music Books
of 2022 * *
Cave is one hell of a writer . . . An extraordinary, one-of-a-kind
book . . . Cave is a miraculously fluent talker, incapable of a
dull line. Many of the sentences have an aphoristic punch . . . It
is impossible to overstate how unusual it is to find this depth of
self-analysis and wisdom from a rock musician. Faith, Hope and
Carnage makes most rock memoirs look like skips full of rusty
anecdotes and grudges -- DORIAN LYNSKEY * * UnHerd * *
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