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The Death of Bunny Munro (Hardcover)

By: Nick Cave (Author)

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"As a lyricist, Nick Cave is renowned for his dark and brooding settings, but THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO is altogether lighter. The prose is playful, the action laced with farce, even if the narrative conforms to a simple (and satisfying) morality tale....Cave has [written]...an entertaining review of contemporary human depravity, by turns frivolous, sober, gaudy, tender and over-egged."

"[Cave is] a surprisingly gifted, if slightly deranged, author....THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO is the only book I can think of that has drawn comparisons to both the New Testament and Faust....That Cave somehow makes this work is a feat unto itself..."

Publisher's note

The rock musician author of And the Ass Saw the Angel presents the story of the final days of a soul-searching and inebriated traveling salesman, who peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely southern England housewives while his son waits in their car. 50,000 first printing.

The rock musician author of And the Ass Saw the Angel presents the story of the final days of a soul-searching and inebriated traveling salesman, who peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely southern England housewives while his son waits in their car. 50,000 first printing.

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Like DEATH OF A SALESMAN on acid with a permanent erection, Australian rock star Nick Cave's second novel, THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO, follows the doomed and depraved journey of salesman Bunny Munro after his wife forgets to take her Tegretol and hangs herself. With Bunny Jr. in tow, Bunny careens from sales pitch to sales pitch, from tryst to tryst, running madly from his grief and from his troubled past. Meanwhile, a devil-horned serial killer stalks ever closer to Bunny and his boy. Lurid, nasty, debauched, and probably misogynistic, Nick Cave's novel surprisingly poses deep questions about religion, morality, fatherhood, and redemption. His first novel, AND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL, was mostly an exercise in effusive language, but Cave's second novel, despite its bouts of pornography and violence, is a narratively complex, psychologically intricate work of fiction that straddles the line between exhibitionist pulp and high literature.

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 to have only a dim awareness of his son's existence, viewing his needs as a distraction from the relentless pursuit of sex, alcohol, and drugs.
When his bizarre road trip shades into a final reckoning, Bunny realizes that the revenants 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.

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