The Death of Bunny Munro
- 21 Aug 2014
- 9781782115335
- £9.99
- 288 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Sep 2009
- 9781847675484
- £7.99
- 288 pp
- 27 Aug 2009
- 9781847678331
- £25
- 8 hrs 15 min
In a few words
A darkly funny and very moving father-son story from the world-famous musician
In a few words
A darkly funny and very moving father-son story from the world-famous musician
In a few words
The first novel in twenty years from the legendary Nick Cave
A modern-day parable, illuminated with raw lyricism, scraps of tenderness and dark phantasmagoria. Accessible, thrilling and gloriously impolite.
Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with The Death of Bunny Munro. A compulsive read possessing all Nick Cave's trademark horror and humanity.
A modern-day parable, illuminated with raw lyricism, scraps of tenderness and dark phantasmagoria. Accessible, thrilling and gloriously impolite.
Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with The Death of Bunny Munro. A compulsive read possessing all Nick Cave's trademark horror and humanity.
Irvine Welsh
Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with The Death of Bunny Munro. A compulsive read possessing all Nick Cave's trademark horror and humanity.
Irvine Welsh
Cocksman, Salesman, Deadman; Bunny Munro might not be Everyman, but every man ought to read this book. And read it half in stitches, half in tears.
David Peace
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Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife’s death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man’s judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.
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Bunny Munro sells beauty products and the dream of hope to the lonely housewives of the south coast. Set adrift by his wife’s sudden death and struggling to keep a grip on reality, he does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road.
While Bunny plies his trade and his sexual charisma door-to-door, nine-year-old Bunny Junior sits patiently in the car exploring the world through the pages of his encyclopaedia.
As their bizarre and increasingly frenzied road trip shears into a final reckoning, Bunny finds that the revenants of his world – decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psycho-killers – have emerged from the shadows and are seeking to exact their toll.
A tender portrait of the relationship between a father and a son, The Death of Bunny Munro is a stylish, furious and hugely enjoyable read, bursting with the wit and mystery that fans will recognise as hallmarks of Cave’s singular vision.
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Bunny Munro sells beauty products and the dream of hope to the lonely housewives of the south coast. Set adrift by his wife’s sudden death and struggling to keep a grip on reality, he does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road.
While Bunny plies his trade and his sexual charisma door-to-door, nine-year-old Bunny Junior sits patiently in the car exploring the world through the pages of his encyclopaedia.
As their bizarre and increasingly frenzied road trip shears into a final reckoning, Bunny finds that the revenants of his world – decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands and horned psycho-killers – have emerged from the shadows and are seeking to exact their toll.
A tender portrait of the relationship between a father and a son, The Death of Bunny Munro is a stylish, furious and hugely enjoyable read, bursting with the wit and mystery that fans will recognise as hallmarks of Cave’s singular vision.
Like one of Martin Amis's early characters, Bunny is an antihero of epic proportions.
Cocksman, Salesman, Deadman; Bunny Munro might not be Everyman, but every man ought to read this book. And read it half in stitches, half in tears.
Pulses with demented musical energy. The reader is drawn along in Bunny's terrible wake, with Cave's writing style and pitch-black humour giving him an unsettling magnetism.
The Death of Bunny Munro is not just a wonderful read, it's also a heartbreaking one. Cave writes novels like he does lyrics, with strokes of blood and sulphur and lightning. He strikes at the mind and heart and is able to bring his readers to their knees.
Like one of Martin Amis's early characters, Bunny is an antihero of epic proportions.
Cocksman, Salesman, Deadman; Bunny Munro might not be Everyman, but every man ought to read this book. And read it half in stitches, half in tears.
Cave makes you shudder and sob simultaneously...
Pulses with demented musical energy. The reader is drawn along in Bunny's terrible wake, with Cave's writing style and pitch-black humour giving him an unsettling magnetism.
Nick Cave will obviously live forever, just because the Devil's scared of him.
Cave stands as one of the great writers on love of our era.
Will Self
The Death of Bunny Munro is not just a wonderful read, it's also a heartbreaking one. Cave writes novels like he does lyrics, with strokes of blood and sulphur and lightning. He strikes at the mind and heart and is able to bring his readers to their knees.
Neil Labute
Nick Cave
View profileNick Cave, perhaps best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, is an artist whose output is prolific and ever-evolving. Over a creative career that spans more than 40 years, Cave has worked across a diverse number of disciplines; as a solo and collaborative musician, a score composer, a writer of books, film scripts and his weekly mailer, The Red Hand Files, and more recently as a ceramic artist. His debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, was published in 1989. His second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. The Sick Bag Song, a cocktail of poetry, travel and memoir, was published in 2015; and Stranger than Kindness, an autobiographical journey in images and words, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller when it was released in 2020. His 2022 book, Faith, Hope and Carnage, an extended conversation with Observer journalist, Seán O’Hagan, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Nick Cave was born in Warracknabeal, Australia. He lives between London and Brighton with his wife, fashion designer Susie Cave.
@nickcaveofficial | nickcave.com
Nick Cave
View profileNick Cave, perhaps best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, is an artist whose output is prolific and ever-evolving. Over a creative career that spans more than 40 years, Cave has worked across a diverse number of disciplines; as a solo and collaborative musician, a score composer, a writer of books, film scripts and his weekly mailer, The Red Hand Files, and more recently as a ceramic artist. His debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, was published in 1989. His second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. The Sick Bag Song, a cocktail of poetry, travel and memoir, was published in 2015; and Stranger than Kindness, an autobiographical journey in images and words, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller when it was released in 2020. His 2022 book, Faith, Hope and Carnage, an extended conversation with Observer journalist, Seán O’Hagan, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Nick Cave was born in Warracknabeal, Australia. He lives between London and Brighton with his wife, fashion designer Susie Cave.
@nickcaveofficial | nickcave.com
Nick Cave
View profileNick Cave, perhaps best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, is an artist whose output is prolific and ever-evolving. Over a creative career that spans more than 40 years, Cave has worked across a diverse number of disciplines; as a solo and collaborative musician, a score composer, a writer of books, film scripts and his weekly mailer, The Red Hand Files, and more recently as a ceramic artist. His debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, was published in 1989. His second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. The Sick Bag Song, a cocktail of poetry, travel and memoir, was published in 2015; and Stranger than Kindness, an autobiographical journey in images and words, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller when it was released in 2020. His 2022 book, Faith, Hope and Carnage, an extended conversation with Observer journalist, Seán O’Hagan, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Nick Cave was born in Warracknabeal, Australia. He lives between London and Brighton with his wife, fashion designer Susie Cave.
@nickcaveofficial | nickcave.com
