Detailed item info | Synopsis | 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.
| | Size | | Length: | 278 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in. | | Width: | 6.3 in. | | Thickness: | 1.0 in. | | Weight: | 17.6 oz. |
| | 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.
| | Industry reviews | "[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..." (09/02/2009)
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