A fun delivery. This Saturday, July 19, the Oxfam antenna in Hove, in the south of England, received more than 2,000 pounds from a certain … Nick Cave, Nick Cave leader and the bad seeds that had lived several years with his partner in Brighton, in East Sussex.
“We had the opportunity to receive an important gift from Nick Cave (…). Little by little we put these works on our shelves,” said the Charity Library on Instagram.
The Australian composer and interpreter has relieved a part of his collection, “goes from Salman Rushdie to Ian Mcewan, or the first edition of the novel White man From Johnny Cash to a recipe book on Aphrodisiacs “, observations The times. The books are sold between 2.99 pounds and 4.99 pounds. All profits will benefit the international organization to combat poverty.
Plane tickets as a marker
This selection of books comes from an exhibition called Strange what kindness (Strange than kindness), an installation that rebuilt Nick Cave’s office, with more than three hundred objects reproduced or belonging to it. The latter was imagined with Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and was presented at the Danish Royal Library, in Copenhagen, in 2021.
No one knows if the books given have really been to the artist or not. But some clues tend to try it, as reported The times: A plane ticket in the name of the improvised artist on a score or an envelope in which ‘Luke’s Tooth “(” Luke’s Tooth “), one of Nick Cave’s children is written.
After the announcement, the Charity bookstore faced an unusual crowd. Questioned by the Oxfam Association, Nick Cave did not want to comment on this gift.
Source: BFM TV
