Nick Cave was born in Australia in 1957. He moved to London with his band The Birthday Party in 1980. Four years later he founded The Bad Seeds, with whom he has made many albums. The fifteenth,
Push the Sky Away, was released to great acclaim in February 2013. Cave has also written the music for several films including
The Assassination of Jesse James and
Lawless. And the Ass Saw the Angel was first published in 1989 and quickly became a cult classic. His second novel,
The Death of Bunny Munro, was published in 2009.
‰Û÷I am damned,‰۪ thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. He feels that somewhere down the line he has made a grave mistake, but this realisation passes in a dreadful heartbeat and is gone‰ÛÓleaving him in a room at the Grenville Hotel, in his underwear, with nothing but himself and his appetites.
Bunny Munro drinks too much, smokes too much and thinks of sex all the time. Following his wife‰۪s suicide, he takes his nine-years-old son on a trip to recover from the tragedy. But he is about to discover that his days are numbered.
Dark, funny and raunchy, The Death of Bunny Munro is the story of a man full of emotional atyachar. Written in the high octane, charged prose that has made Nick Cave one of the world‰۪s most acclaimed lyricists, it is an unforgettable book.
