We’ll have to excuse Nick Cave for taking twenty years to grace bookshelves with a second novel. He’s been a busy man what with the Bad Seeds putting out new records and even touring and playing festivals every so often. And let’s not forget the Grinderman side project or his score and screenplay for the film The Proposition and the forthcoming score for the film The Road. Nick Cave is nothing if not prolific and talented in a few different creative spheres. Now it is clear that he’s dusted off his typewriter more than few times in the past two decades, with the release of The Death of Bunny Munro.
Bunny Munro himself is a salesman who has lost his soul somewhere along the way. Selling beauty products to lonely English housewives, Munro is devilish and lascivious, seeking sex, booze, and drugs, all while grappling with his wife’s suicide and struggling to come to grips with being a single father. Heroic in the eyes of his son, louche shadow beast to everyone else, Munro is a singular Cave creation, a question mark walking the wire between sin and redemption, between horror and comedy. Cave’s talent at treating the grotesque and horrific with a cackling and cracking sense of humanity shines in this novel. Check out the official website, for video clips of snippets read by Cave himself, complete with incredible facial expressions and gyrating exotic dancers to boot.
The book will be available in the US on the Faber and Faber imprint and will fetch $24.00 for the hardcover. For those of you lucky enough to live in New York City keep an eye on Barnes and Noble in Union Square, as Cave will be stopping by to hawk his book on Sept 14th.
