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Nick Cave
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The Death of Bunny Munro |
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English |
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Paperback |
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288 |
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2010-05-06 |
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1847677630 |
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Canongate Books Ltd |
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0.35 pounds |
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0.75 x 4.41 x 7.01 inches |
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Marianne (Australia) (2011/01/31):
After a hiatus of 20 years, The Death of Bunny Munro is Nick Cave’s second novel. From the first page, Cave very effectively puts us inside the depraved mind of Bunny Munro, a middle-aged salesman of beauty products. He confirms for us that some men are thinking non-stop about sex, no matter how appropriate it may (or may not) be. This makes for some very black humour. As we follow Bunny through a death, a funeral and a road trip, we may well wonder, how did he get to be this way? Perhaps Cave is making a commentary on the power of charisma. Bunny’s charisma has everyone elevating him to hero status: the friends who think he’s great; his female customers who open their cheque books (and often their legs) for him; his wife, who stays despite his infidelity; his intelligent but impressionable 9-year-old son, who puts his father on a high pedestal indeed; and even himself, justifying his wanton behaviour, believing he still has “it”.
Cave is a master of description: “He feels like the flensed blubber a butcher may trim from a choice fillet of prime English beef…..”. The novel is full of rich imagery, some of it delightful, some grotesque. A novel with humour, horror, heartache, haunting and humanity. The author’s cameo in Bunny Munro’s death scene is a cute touch. We are left wondering if his son will survive his influence. Comedy and tragedy both, this is a powerful read.
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