{"product_id":"9780241978863-secondhand-and-the-ass-saw-the-angel","title":"And The Ass Saw The Angel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep 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.\n\nCave — 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309668802779,"sku":"9780241978863-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f6f7236c-305b-4dd8-9f1c-26b43aa67bc9.png?v=1789454889","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780241978863-secondhand-and-the-ass-saw-the-angel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}