Nick Cave's Second Novel 'Mort de Bunny Munro' Reviewed

Nick Cave, known primarily as a singer-songwriter, published his second novel 'Mort de Bunny Munro' twenty years after 'And the Ass Saw the Angel'. The story follows Bunny Munro, a beauty product salesman in Brighton, England, whose wife commits suicide after his infidelities. Left with their young son, Bunny embarks on a grotesque road trip to teach him 'life', haunted by hallucinations of celebrities' vaginas and his wife's ghost. The novel is written in a fast, slang-heavy style reminiscent of a film, with a serial killer looming. Despite its dark comedy, the book is ultimately a story of filial love, described as the antithesis of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'. The review by Richard Leydier appears in artpress.