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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Nick Cave

ISBN: 9781838858384

Year: 2015

Format: Paperback

Memoir, Music

The Sick Bag Song by
Nick Cave

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$ 360.00 mxn

The Sick Bag Song by

Nick Cave

Reviews

"An epic narrative poem about his travels across North America… Cave is experimenting with a new literary form a mash-up of prose, poetry, song lyrics and autobiography."

New York Times

Summary

The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory. It began life scribbled on airline sick bags during Cave’s 22-city journey around North America in 2014. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary epic.

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville