And the Ass Saw the Angel

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave. First edition. Second impression (1989). Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Signed with dedication 'To Sabina with Love Nick Cave' by author to blank end page. No internal markings. The dust jacket has some minor shelfwear to extremities, now in removable protective sleeve.

 

About And the Ass Saw the Angel

And the Ass Saw the Angel is the first novel by the Australian musician and singer Nick Cave, originally published in 1989 by Black Spring Press in the United Kingdom and Harper Collins in the United States. 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