The Death of Bunny Munro - Canons
The Death of Bunny Munro - Canons
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Published:
21 August, 2014
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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.
Prizes
Short-listed for Literary Review Bad Sex Awards 2009 (UK),Long-listed for International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2011 (Ireland)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781782115335 |
| ISBN10 | 1782115331 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 231 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Canongate Books |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Canons edition |
Media Reviews
A modern-day parable, illuminated with raw lyricism, scraps of tenderness and dark phantasmagoria. Accessible, thrilling and gloriously impolite. * * Sunday Telegraph * *
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 * *
Like one of Martin Amis's early characters, Bunny is an antihero of epic proportions. * * Observer * *
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 * *
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. * * Financial Times * *
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 * *
Unflagging in its imaginative energy and mordant humour . . . Cave makes you shudder and sob simultaneously. * * Guardian * *
Told with verve, studded with scalding humour . . . What lingers are the linguistic fireworks. * * Observer * *
In its own twisted way The Death of Bunny Munro is a plea for love in a world rancid with lust ... Bunny's bad boy charm makes it all too easy to go along for the ride * * Metro * *
Cave's second novel is everything you would hope for: wild, hallucinatory, redemptive and linguistically electrifying . . . who else would dare to create a protagonist like Bunny Munro. * * Sunday Telegraph * *
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Author's Bio
Nick 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.
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