Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave

by Ian Johnston (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  1996

  $8.34

  A widely acclaimed biography of one of rock's most compelling, uncompromising and influential singer-songwriters, Ian Johnston's BAD SEED offers a superb overview of Nick Cave's career to date.

  Through Cave's fronting of the incendiary bands The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, producing music of unfettered expression and explosive intensity, to his creative collaborations outside of the rock industry in film and literature, BAD SEED illustrates a life lived in barely controlled chaos: and unravels the motivation and unique appeal of a reluctant icon whose songs, according to the Rolling Stones, possess the authority of the most primal kind of myth.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $9.39

  Written in the first person by Steven Mosher, who has helped the Chi family find asylum in the US, this is an account of a young Chinese woman named Chi An and her shocking experience in the face of China's one couple, one child policy. The story begins in 1981, when China launched a fanatical campaign to control the population growth by limiting each couple to one child. A huge cadre of committed population-control workers was recruited to prevent the birth of illegal babies. Chi An, a young nurse, was one of the most relentless in rooting out pregnant women, subjecting them to forced abortions (often in the last three months) and sterilizations. A few years later, Chi An herself became the target of China's population police.