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Bunny Munro sells beauty products and the scent of adventure to the lonely housewives of England's south coast. Set adrift by his wife's death he hits the road one last time - with his young son in tow. As Bunny swaggers from door-to-door hawking his wares and feeding his libido, nine-year-old Bunny Junior waits in the car seeking the comfort of his mother's ghost and watching his father self-destruct. Haunted by his appetites, jealous husbands and a serial killer in a devil suit, Bunny Munro is a desperate man. And he's going to die. (from Text Publishing website)
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Dedication: For Susie
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Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro : Misogynistic Trash, Scatological Rhetoric, or an Ode to Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto?
2017
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— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 8 no. 1 2017; (p. 17-30)'This paper interrogates the links between Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro and Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto. It starts by situating Cave’s writing in relation to his status as an auteur, examines discourses of rock music and the murder ballad, before providing a close reading of misogynistic scenes in the novel. It offers several ways to read the novel and questions whether it can be labelled a parody, satire, or as scatological rhetoric. It concludes by drawing the discussion back to aesthetics and the intersection of literature and music in the audio book version of Bunny Munro and Cave’s success as a salesman.' (Publication abstract)
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The Total Depravity of Nick Cave’s Literary World
2011
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criticism
— Appears in: Literature and Theology , September vol. 25 no. 3 2011; (p. 312-328) 'The article argues that Nick Cave's literary (as opposed to his musical) world is characterised by the Calvinist doctrine of total depravity. In both outlining this world and seeking the moment of redemption, I simultaneously construct the framework of that world—in terms of the deranged house of incest, substance abuse, the spread of depravity to nature itself and the way the Bible is woven into that world—and fill in its content, with a specific focus on his novels. As that world gains some body, its dialectical relation to redemption begins to emerge, although with a problematic twist (Author's abstract). -
The Monarch of Middlebrow
2009
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— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 197 2009; (p. 17-22) -
[Review] The Death of Bunny Munro
2009
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— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 8 November vol. 114 no. 45 2009; (p. 32)
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[Review] The Death of Bunny Munro
2009
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 6 November no. 5562 2009; (p. 21)
— Review of The Death of Bunny Munro 2009 single work novel
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[Review] The Death of Bunny Munro
2009
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— Appears in: InCite , July vol. 30 no. 7 2009; (p. 20)
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[Review] The Death of Bunny Munro
2009
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 August 2009; (p. 26)
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Spruiking the Perils of Phallic Power Fails to Stand UP
2009
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 August 2009; (p. 13)
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Review of the Week
2009
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 2 August 2009; (p. 22)
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Cave Hits the Wrong Key
2009
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— Appears in: The Age , 1 August 2009; (p. 21)
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The Return of the Bard Seed as Cave Pens Another Book
2009
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 January 2009; (p. 20) -
Undercover
2009
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column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 June 2009; (p. 30) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the book cover for Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro. Wyndham quotes Text publisher Michael Heyward as saying 'the image of a spreadeagled young woman suits Cave's story about a libidinous salesman and his son'. -
Paperback Writers
2009
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— Appears in: The Age , 27 June 2009; The Guardian , 3 April 2009; -
Sowing New Seeds
2009
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biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 1 August 2009; (p. 12-15, 17, 19) -
The Monarch of Middlebrow
2009
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criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 197 2009; (p. 17-22)
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