Sadly, in May, after the interviews for it were completed, Cave’s oldest son, Jethro, died unexpectedly at age 31.
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The 63-year-old Australian’s metamorphosis is much the focus of “Faith, Hope and Carnage,” a book-length series of exploratory interviews between Cave and the journalist Seán O’Hagan, which will be published on Sept. Outside music, Cave’s need to further inhabit his new way of being grew to include The Red Hand Files, a recurring online column in which he, a formerly somewhat intimidating figure, answers with moving care and moral clarity the frequently soul-searching questions submitted by readers. Gradually, though, he has become a transmitter of gloriously cathartic, heartening and empathetic - though no less unflinching - albums and live performances. Cave had been one of music’s dark princes, a revered songwriter and performer unafraid of sonic and lyrical abrasion and provocation, an eager dweller in the shadows of the soul. Afterward, over time, Cave managed to achieve a newfound appreciation of life’s fragile grace. In 2015, Cave’s 15-year-old son, Arthur, died after falling from a cliff near the family’s home in Brighton, England.
“I try to write from the point of view,” the musician and writer Nick Cave says, “that something can happen to your life that is absolutely shattering that can also be redemptive and beautiful.” He came to this perspective through fire.
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