Summary
Nick Cave: And the Donkey Saw an Angel
How to fuse true rocker, extremely destructive, rebellious energy with equally extremely sophisticated intellectualism? Only a few have succeeded, and with this debut novel, Nick Cave joined the select company of pop culture icons such as Jim Morrison, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson or Leonard Cohen, who showed their talent equally well behind the microphone and at the writing desk. Let's blasphemously say that the author once again points to his fascination with the Bible by offering an allegorical picture of the modern world through a magical-realistic description of his cruel and grotesque world of poverty, injustice and hypocrisy. Although, therefore, he had already indicated the light vision of this prose in his exceptional musical opus, Cave wrote a brilliant and self-contained book that would have come to life even without the support of his rock fame.
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