And The Ass Saw The Angel
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Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Deep in the fever-swamps of an isolated Southern town, Nick Cave's And the Ass Saw the Angel introduces Euchrid Eucrow, a mute outcast born into squalor and violence, whose tortured inner world brims with religious mania, apocalyptic visions, and a savage poetic fury that sets him on a collision course with the God-fearing community that despises him. Published in 1989 and drawing its title from the biblical story of Balaam, this debut novel chronicles Euchrid's descent into madness and messianic delusion through a torrent of raw, incantatory prose that reads less like conventional narrative and more like a dark gospel unearthed from the American South's most desolate corners. Cave — best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — brings to fiction the same brooding intensity and visceral lyricism that defines his music, constructing a work that sits squarely in the tradition of Southern Gothic alongside Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner. The novel's dense, stream-of-consciousness language is both repellent and hypnotic, pulling the reader deeper into Euchrid's warped yet strangely compelling worldview. A cult classic that has endured for decades, it leaves one wondering where the boundary between prophecy and madness truly lies.
Author: Nick Cave
Format: Paperback
Published: 2013, Penguin Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Deep in the fever-swamps of an isolated Southern town, Nick Cave's And the Ass Saw the Angel introduces Euchrid Eucrow, a mute outcast born into squalor and violence, whose tortured inner world brims with religious mania, apocalyptic visions, and a savage poetic fury that sets him on a collision course with the God-fearing community that despises him. Published in 1989 and drawing its title from the biblical story of Balaam, this debut novel chronicles Euchrid's descent into madness and messianic delusion through a torrent of raw, incantatory prose that reads less like conventional narrative and more like a dark gospel unearthed from the American South's most desolate corners. Cave — best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — brings to fiction the same brooding intensity and visceral lyricism that defines his music, constructing a work that sits squarely in the tradition of Southern Gothic alongside Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner. The novel's dense, stream-of-consciousness language is both repellent and hypnotic, pulling the reader deeper into Euchrid's warped yet strangely compelling worldview. A cult classic that has endured for decades, it leaves one wondering where the boundary between prophecy and madness truly lies.