Nick Cave's New Novel is All Sex, Drugs and Hand Cream

Boston Phoenix | October 8, 2009
When I interviewed Nick Cave for the Phoenix three years ago and he told me -- drolly, languidly, literarily -- that his next writing project was about "a sexually incontinent hand-cream salesman" on the south coast of England, I assumed he was taking the piss.

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