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Original Title:	And the Ass Saw the Angel
ISBN:	1880985721 (ISBN13: 9781880985724)
Edition Language:	English

And the Ass Saw the Angel

Nick Cave

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 10151 Users | 534 Reviews

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Title	:	And the Ass Saw the Angel
Author	:	Nick Cave
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	March 26th 2003 by 2.13.61 (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Novels. Gothic. Southern Gothic

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Cave’s only novel to date takes on the southern gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute in the pink caravan on Hooper’s Hill. And it is Euchrid, spiraling ever deeper into his mad angelic vision, who will ultimately redeem both the town and its people. “Surprising, remarkable.” — The Atlanta Journal

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While the writing is certainly indulgent, it's important to remember that the narration is in first-person -- that is, the wordplay and elitist vocabulary bordering on nonsense and semi-stream-of-consciousness monologues are composing a cross-section of Euchrid's brain. The prose is complex, gritty and even abrasive at times, but to judge all of the technicalities of Cave's writing as faults of the author is to ignore the possibility - and the necessity - of the main character having some hand

Even though Nick Cave is one of my favorite artists, I went into the book wanting it to be lackluster - my reason was that there HAD to be something this man wasn't good at. Rock star, check - awesome screenwriter, check - soundtrack composer, check. But quotes like this: "Clambering aback of him came the multitude, like a grand parade of clowns, tripping and tumbling their way to a sloppy, fully slapstick salvation." Yowza! And "The two grim figures on the bank, mere shadows now, looked on as



Mah God, ah am at last free! From this book, that is. Overwritten, overwrought, and truly poorly edited, Nick Cave's debut novel is a grimacing, death trodden and DARKSOME tale of mental madness and religious madness and hillbilly hell and rotten mash liqueur and hobos and godsent rain curses and child rape and hooker rape and child lust and hooker lust and child killing and hooker killing. The one and only star here is the beautiful, inventive and utterly creative use of language throughout.

It has been nearly a decade since I first read this, and it was probably the first Southern Gothic that I read. It does still hold up and is in fact in good company as one of the most gruesome in the category. I place it next to The Devil all the Time by Donald Ray Pollock and also Child of God by Cormac McCarthy and that is among very good company indeed. One interesting thing I noticed is that while many readers placed it in the Southern Gothic style, the majority placed it in Horror. This is

One year ago I quit biting my nails - a lifelong habit I finally seemed to have rid myself of. Last week though I started reading this book and, before turning page 10, I was munching on my fingers again. Compulsively... no - convulsively. Such was my reaction to Nick Cave's gorgeous first novel: convulsive. Didn't André Breton write: "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all"? Well, this novel has all the hysterical beauty of a medieval tale told by a hermit gone insane. It's an

A beautifully rich and intelligent novel - the language playful and complex and colourful (though most of the colours are greys, browns and red.. lots of red), this was almost poetry at times. The story - as much as I understood/followed it (and I admit that I only 'got' about eighty percent of it) follows a mute young man growing up in a backwoods American town of hicks, religious nutters, freaks, alcoholics, whores and much more. There is a sub-theme concerning a young girl suspected to be a