The Death of Bunny Munro
September 22nd 2009 06:39
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Im back
What to say about this book. I honestly don't know where to start; did I like it? Didn't I? I really cannot be sure.
The day before I began to read this book I finished Nick Cave's other offering entitled "And the ass saw the angel". It was a dirty, bleeding grimy book- and one of the most brilliantly written I have had the pleasure to read. I would describe the book as gruesomely beautiful, tragic and insightful. Oh, and nightmarish as hell.
And then there was Bunny. Cave took twenty years to write and release this second book, and the differences are tremendous; for one it has a modern setting. This really did shock me because everything else I have read, heard or seen by him was set around the turn of the nineteenth century. And none of them mentioned the word vagina as much either.
A travelling salesman peddling beauty products, Bunny Munro is his name, having sex with anything that moves (or not) is his game. The book shows the descent of Bunny's charisma, charm and sanity after the suicide of his wife, and being forced to care for his son Bunny Junior. Bunny is a sex crazed alcoholic who 'has the gift', that thing that draws women to him- or so it would seem.
To try and summarize the book would take a lot: Bunny has painted himself into quite a precarious corner and seeing if he ever gets out is half the adventure.
The day before I began to read this book I finished Nick Cave's other offering entitled "And the ass saw the angel". It was a dirty, bleeding grimy book- and one of the most brilliantly written I have had the pleasure to read. I would describe the book as gruesomely beautiful, tragic and insightful. Oh, and nightmarish as hell.
And then there was Bunny. Cave took twenty years to write and release this second book, and the differences are tremendous; for one it has a modern setting. This really did shock me because everything else I have read, heard or seen by him was set around the turn of the nineteenth century. And none of them mentioned the word vagina as much either.
A travelling salesman peddling beauty products, Bunny Munro is his name, having sex with anything that moves (or not) is his game. The book shows the descent of Bunny's charisma, charm and sanity after the suicide of his wife, and being forced to care for his son Bunny Junior. Bunny is a sex crazed alcoholic who 'has the gift', that thing that draws women to him- or so it would seem.
To try and summarize the book would take a lot: Bunny has painted himself into quite a precarious corner and seeing if he ever gets out is half the adventure.
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