num_pages: 327
description: Musician novelist poet Nick Cave (b. 1957) is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic outputalways uncompromising hypnotic and intenseis defined by an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In Nick Mercy on Me  Reinhard Kleist employs a cast of characters drawn from Caves music and writing to tell the story of a formidable artist and influencer. Kleist paints an expressive and enthralling portrait of Caves childhood in Australia; his early years fronting The Birthday Party; the sublime highs of his success with The Bad Seeds; and the crippling lows of his battle with heroin. Capturing everything from Caves frenzied performances in Berlin to the tender moments he spent with love and muse Anita Lane Kleists graphic biography like Caves songs is by turns electrifying sentimental morbid and comicbut always engrossing.
language: English
title: Nick Cave: Mercy on Me
publisher: SelfMadeHero