Dark but funny, compelling and moving (though pretty vulgar in places) I could not put this novel down.
Bunny Munro is a sex-addicted door to door sales man who sells beauty products to lonely housewives. When his wife commits suicide he decides to take his son Bunny Jnr on the road with him.
Bunny Jnr realises that his dad does not behave like anyone else's father, but he adores him just the same. Armed with his trusty encyclopedia and accompanied by the ghost of his mother, Bunny Jnr must witness the slow demise of his father to his tragic end.
The father/son sequences are wonderfully handled and are the redeeming feature to the storyline. This is Nick Cave’s second novel written approximately 20 years after his acclaimed first novel ‘And The Ass Saw The Angel”.
Whilst I wouldn’t personally recommend it due to the confronting nature of the subject matter, it did appeal to my ‘dark side’ and I liked the way it was written.
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