Nick Cave Reads From His Second Novel

It’s been two decades since Nick Cave published his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, and now Cave is finally putting out the follow-up. Just a quick glance at the publisher’s synopsis of The Death of Bunny Munro and you can see that author Nick Cave is obsessed with the same themes as songwriter Nick Cave:

Bunny himself seems to have only a dim awareness of his son’s existence, viewing his needs as a distraction from the relentless pursuit of sex, alcohol, and drugs.

When his bizarre road trip shades into a final reckoning, Bunny realizes that the revenants of his world—decrepit fathers, vengeful ghosts, jealous husbands, and horned psycho-killers—lurk in the shadows, waiting to exact their toll.

To promote the fall release of the novel, Cave is doing a reading/Q&A at the iTunes festival in Camden next week and there’s a promo website with videos of Cave reading excerpts from the book. Check out chapters 3 and 17 here, but I must warn you that Nick Cave reading to you in a dimly lit room with a blurry projection of a rabbit in the background can be a bit creepy.