The Death of Bunny Munro (2009)
The Death of Bunny Munro is Nick Cave’s second novel following his unrelated 1989 début book “And the Ass Saw the Angel” (which, god-willing, is on its way through the post as we speak). You may need a strong stomach to digest this book, but if you’ve read Trainspotting and/or Porno by Irvin Welsh, you should be desensitized enough to get through it just fine. Bunny Munro’s brilliance comes with Cave’s descriptive genius – if you’ve heard his music it should be quite easy to imagine the fine arrangement of words Cave has for us here. It’s a moving and in places terrifyingly funny book (I caught myself guiltily “LOL”ing at some of the filthier portions more than once).
The Road (2009)
The Road is a postapocalyptic movie based on a book by Cormac McCarthy and directred by John Hillcoat (The Proposition, 2005).
Following an unexplained cataclysm leading to the death of most of the worlds population and all animal and plant life, “The Man” (not Samuel L Jackson, but the exceptional Viggo Mortensen) or “Father” and the “Boy” travel towards the sea looking for food to survive and some small hope for a future.
