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.
Seรกn 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.
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 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
* * Observer * *
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 fascinating read . . . O'Hagan is skilled at drilling down to
discover the most interesting conversational nubs, but it is Cave's
words that are the star of the show. The man talks like he is
writing poetry and the manner in which he describes making music is
sure to delight both fans and casual listeners
* * Independent * *
Ultimately enriching . . . suffused with love, teeming with
ideas
* * Guardian * *
Remarkably candid . . . the culmination of a prolonged and moving
period of reflection . . . One of Cave's greatest skills is to
bring a secular eye to the religious and a religious eye to the
secular, the sacred and the profane intertwined
* * New Statesman * *
Immensely eloquent and wise . . . a tender guide to the
transformative potential of grief
* * Telegraph, Best Music Books of 2022 * *
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 * *
The most compelling book of the year - raw pain and struggle
thought through and explored with rare courage
* * New Statesman, Books of the Year * *
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