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The Death of Bunny Munro

By: Nick Cave
Narrated by: Nick Cave
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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.©2009 Nick Cave Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Marriage Heartfelt Scary Fiction
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Nick Cave's 'The Death of Bunny Munro' is perfectly narrated by the author with mood-enhancing musical segues between chapters and a subtle sprinkling of sound effects throughought. This is more a work of art than a mere audiobook.
Truly unique and guaranteed to leave the listener stunned and breathless

A work of art that lives up to it's rave reviews

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Anyone who is familiar with the lyrics of Nick Cave, with their recurring themes of death, obsession, and hallucinatory mental illness will hardly be expecting Mary Poppins, and will find all those themes here, but for me, this as a novel to be admired more than enjoyed. While the author does not expect sympathy for his sex-obsessed protagonist or invite the reader to approve of or like him, my problem was that I just did not want to spend any more time with him or his cronies than I would have done in real life, I suspect we have all encountered the type. And while it was very well written, I was glad to get to the end, so that it would be at last be over.
Always interesting to hear a novel narrated by the author, and he does an excellent job here, not least because of his richly textured voice, and the accompanying elegiac music is beautiful, almost jarringly so in contrast to the text. And I liked the little inserted sound effects, such as car doors closing, which enhanced the immersive effect.
I did finish it, but more because I felt that I should, than because I wanted to, and was frankly grateful that it was not longer.
The ending was typical of Cave almost to the point of self parody

Well crafted exposition of unpleasantness

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Speechless. Pure poetry, grotesque and profound simultaneously. The soundsdape, narration and music were incredible.

left me speechless

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So, now I've heard it to the end I need to re-listen again...and not, some might think, for the description of Avril Lavigne.

Fascinating, funny, sad, and made me think Wow how wonderful life can be

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Enter the warped world of Bunny Munro at your peril. You have been warned. This is a gorgeously poetic nightmare of sexual depravity, generational vileness and endangered childhood innocence. If you do enter, you may be appalled but you may also be captivated by the poetry of the language and the relationship between Bunny and his son Bunny Jnr. It was excellent to hear the great man reading it himself and adding music and sound effects to create a spellbinding aural landscape. Well worth a listen.

Dark Hallucinogenic Magic

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