Title: The death of Bunny Munro
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: 2009
Description: The Death of Bunny Munro recounts the last journey of a salesman in search of a soul. Following the suicide of his wife, Bunny, a door-to-door salesman and lothario, takes his son on a trip along the south coast of England. He is about to discover that his days are numbered. With a daring hellride of a plot The Death of Bunny Munro is also a modern morality tale of sorts, a stylish, furious, funny, truthful and tender account of one man’s descent and judgement. The novel is full of the linguistic verve that has made Cave one of the world's most respected lyricists. It is his first novel since the publication of his critically acclaimed debut And the Ass Saw the Angel twenty years ago.
Subjects: Death, Sales personnel, Literature, Bereavement, Wives, Fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Didactic fiction
LC classification: PR9619.3.C4 D43 2009