The Death of Bunny Munro
A Novel
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Price:
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$29.99
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On Sale:
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31/08/2009
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Formats:
Hardcover
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Twenty years after the publication of his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave brings us the final days of Bunny Munro, a salesman in search of a soul.
Set adrift by his wife’s suicide and struggling to keep some sort of grasp on reality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yellow Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while he peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero, larger than life. But Bunny himself seems only to have a dim awareness of his son’s existence, viewing his needs as a distraction from his own relentless pursuit of sex, alcohol and drugs.
When his bizarre road trip shades into a final reckoning, and when England’s small towns seem to become stopping points in a strange, mythical landscape, Bunny realizes that the remnants of his world -- decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psycho-killers -- lurk in the shadows, waiting to exact their toll.
At turns dark and humane -- and with all the mystery and enigma fans will recognize as Cave’s singular vision -- The Death of Bunny Munro questions the nature of sin and redemption, and lays bare the imprints that fathers leave on their sons.
Check out the website: www.thedeathofbunnymunro.com/
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Critical Praise for
The Death of Bunny Munro
“Put Cormac Mccarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse, and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. . . . this novel [is] the work of one of the great cross-genre storytellers of our age.”
— IRVINE WELSH
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“Nick Cave will obviously live forever, just because the devil’s scared of him.”
— ROLLING STONE
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"...the alternative would be a world in which we did not have The Death of Bunny Munro or anything like it, and that would be a world bleaker than any Nick Cave song."
— Sunday Herald Arts Supplement
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"This sad, hilarious and filthy novel could do for men’s base private thoughts what Sex and the City did for girl chat."
— Q Magazine
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"...Not just that Cave’s vision is one with real poignancy and humanity but that he is a supremely gifted writer. For ultimately, the book (like it’s author and it’s anti-anti-hero) has a heart. It may be black but it’s a heart nonetheless."
— 3am Magazine
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"the novel is a riot, a blast, a stone classic. It won’t be to everyone’s tastes, I’m sure, but those people whose tastes do not conform with ours can’t concern us here."
— Bookmunch Online
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The Death of Bunny Munro
Set adrift by his wife’s suicide and struggling to keep some sort of grasp on reality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yellow Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son waiting patiently in the car while he peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero...
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