http://www.amazon.com/Death-Bunny-Munro-Novel/dp/0865479100
Apparently the image above is for the UK edition. The US cover will appear thus:
An audio version will also be available on CD, as well as this intriguing mix of film, music and novel...
“Last week saw the launch of Limbo’s new IRREGULAR collaboration with Canongate Books [...] The lights went down for this bit; Nick Cave has made videos of himself reading passages from his not-yet-published novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, a hellish and madcap story about a salesman in search of a soul. Filmed by acclaimed directors, with custom-made soundtracks (never publicly screened before last Thursday), the projections show Nick in an unfamiliar guise – the novelist, but also the actor. Rolling Stone’s comment that ‘Nick Cave will obviously live forever, just because the Devil’s scared of him’ is called to mind – but even so, Bunny went down a storm and mesmerised us into thrilled, open-mouthed glee. It takes a lot to shock IRREGULAR people. ”
http://black-spring.com/limbo/limbo-065-come-on-gang-little-kicks-endor.html
“Canongate secured the British rights to publish The Death of Bunny Munro, a cult work of towering genius (I can already see the cover puff), last year. It’s due for release in September 2009, but Canongate, being the trendy publishing house that they are, have produced a filmed reading with ambient music from Cave’s Bad Seeds, and plan to release extracts in PR friendly lumps.
[...]The Death of Bunny Munro seemed pretty funny. There were some good lines about how hotels are dead brilliant because they have the tiniest soaps you’ll ever see – individually wrapped, which Cave tripped off with a fine sense of timing. A nice reference to bananas in f….g pyjamas was also appreciated, by me at least.
The Death of Bunny Munro focuses on a man who travels around the South of England with his son after the suicide of his wife. Maybe there are some shocking/amazing bits to come, but I quite liked the humour myself. It’s not often you get to laugh at someone with multiple ASBOs without looking uneasily over your shoulder. Bunny Munro junior has four separate ASBOs and has been banned from many fast food outlets. ”
http://textualities.net/hannah-adcock/nick-cave-and-byngs-irregulars/
Thanks to Caro and freethemillhaven1 from the Nick Cave forum for these links! Let's all pray to St. Jude for a US book tour and reading! Best case scenario, a combined reading with music from a few Bad Seeds... Graham Parker did this very well with his excellent book Carp Fishing on Valium some years ago, a solo reading of excerpts along with songs that illustrated and enhanced the stories. Couldn't find a video of that show, but here's GP doing one of the songs he wrote for the book...
And to whet the appetite for a reading by Nick, here's a clip of him reciting an excerpt from his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
