Faith, Hope and Carnage
Forty hours of conversation recorded after the death of Cave fifteen-year-old son, covering grief, songwriting, doubt and why he has no patience left for cynicism.
Forty hours of conversation between Cave and the journalist Seán O’Hagan, conducted after the death of Cave’s fifteen-year-old son, covering grief, songwriting, doubt, God, and why he no longer has any patience for cynicism. Unusually unguarded for a book by a musician, and unwilling to make the loss into a lesson.
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Nick Cave — who has known more grief than most, having lost his young son and lost his own father at a young age, but has remained an unrelenting guardian of joy — takes up the question of that transmutation on the pages of his altogether magnificent book Faith, Hope and Carnage (public library).
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