Australian rocker Nick Cave, frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, returns with a darkly comic second novel after 1989’s “And the Ass Saw the Angel.”
“The Death of Bunny Monroe” opens obviously with a death, but not Bunny Monroe. It’s Bunny’s wife who commits suicide after years of neglect, although Bunny warns us that his end is coming. Monroe is a misogynistic door to door beauty salesman, who is obsessed with sex and tries to bed ever housewife he tries to sell his wares to all over England with his son in tow.
Bunny fantasies about bedding Kylie Minogue and calls Canadian pop rocker Avril Lavigne “a symbol of impossible, unquenchable and terminally dysfunctional male sexual desire.”
If you are a fan of Martin Amis’s novels who chronicle the lives of loathsome and mysgonistic men, you will love this gritty new novel.
