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Alexandra

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject: The Death of Bunny Munro - NC's second novel

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/66944-canongate-buys-nick-cave-novel.html

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Canongate buys Nick Cave novel

12.09.08 Catherine Neilan

Canongate publisher and managing director Jamie Byng has acquired world rights to Nick Cave's second novel, nearly 20 years after his début. Byng, who described the Death of Bunny Munro as "a modern Faustus of sorts", acquired the rights through Cave's lawyer, David Glick. "Nick is one of the great forces in contemporary culture—not just an outstanding musician and singer, but also a superb writer, be it of lyrics, screenplays, music scores or novels," said Byng. "This novel is going to shock and amaze a lot of people."

The book traces the fortunes of one man and his son on a road trip around the south coast of England following the suicide of his wife. It will be edited by Francis Bickmore. The hardback, which will retail at £14.99, is due out in September 2009.

Canongate is planning a multimedia launch, with an audiobook narrated by Cave and an e-book launching simultaneously. A signed and numbered limited edition will also be available, as will a special e-book version combining Cave's narration with an original "soundscape".

German publisher Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Italian company Feltrinelli and Australia-based Text have all made pre-emptive offers for rights.

Cave's previous foray into fiction, And the Ass Saw the Angel, has sold 11,147 copies since 1998, when BookScan began recording sales. Publisher Penguin is planning to re-release the book in September as a 20th anniversary special edition.

Cave, meanwhile, is working with long-time collaborator John Hillcoat on the soundtrack for a forthcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which is due out in November.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/12/nick.cave.new.novel

The Guardian wrote:

Canongate buys new Nick Cave novel

The first Cave novel since 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel will hit the shelves next year, battling for space with Rushdie, Roth and, er, Katie Price

Tim Jonze and Dafydd Goff

It's been nearly 20 years since Nick Cave last flexed his novelistic muscle, but pretty soon he could well be battling with such literary heavyweights as Rushdie, Roth and, er, Katie Price. Publishing house Canongate has announced that it has the rights to Cave's second novel, which follows 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel.

Cave's debut novel was critically acclaimed at the time, and has since achieved cult status. It tells the story of Euchrid Eucrow, the mute son of an alcoholic mother and sadistic father, who exacts revenge on the people who have made his life a misery. Featuring expansions on the themes dealt with in Bad Seeds lyrics, it's twisted Biblical fantasia is like a punk take on the southern Gothic style of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

The brutal, visceral quality of Cave's language has drawn comparisons with the early work of American writer Cormac McCarthy, and coincidentally, Cave is currently working on a soundtrack for the film adaption of McCarthy's Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Road.

According to the Bookseller.com, Cave's forthcoming book will trace "the fortunes of one man and his son on a road trip around the south coast of England following the suicide of his wife".

Upon release there will also be audio books, ebooks, signed books and no doubt lots more variations on the "book" theme.

For those of you who've been waiting patiently since 1989 for a new Nick Cave novel, you'll have to hold your breath a little longer. The book is not due to hit shelves until September 2009.

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: The Death of Bunny Munro - NC's second novel

The Guardian wrote:

The brutal, visceral quality of Cave's language has drawn comparisons with the early work of American writer Cormac McCarthy

No wonder, given that The Road can aptly be described as tracing

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the fortunes of one man and his son on a road trip [...] following the suicide of his wife.

Thanks for the news Alexandra! I'm looking forward to it.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:28 am Post subject:

I am really looking forward to this.

Alexandra

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:00 am Post subject:

Los Angeles Times wrote:

Tell me about the book you’re writing now. Is it any kind of follow-up to “And the Ass Saw the Angel”?

It’s about as far away from that as you can get.

Are you thinking at all, now that you are writing another prose work, about the idea of the author and how that relates to the idea of the creator or God?

No, I’m not thinking about anything because I’m writing my book. That’s a matter of putting your head down and writing the pages. There’s no other way of doing it. For me, the process of writing is the thinking. It’s the most exciting of all things, when you have these words in the English language, and writing is just sort of ordering these words in a pleasant way. I find that whole process extremely exciting. I don’t think about the sort of question that you mentioned.

Why is that? It would tangle you up somehow?

Well, I’m involved in telling a story. It’s fiction and what you need to be doing is being in there, inside the character’s head. I just love it. With writing, I can definitely get closer to the vision in my head than with any other art form that I’ve been working in. There are no surprises. I can actually have an idea and take it exactly to the place where I want to go. I feel like I have some control over the medium. I don’t actually feel like I have control over the medium of music. In fact, when I create music and I perform music, it never sounds the way I thought it would. You asked this before, but I never feel I have much control over its outcome. Not because other musicians are involved, but because I understand music less than I understand writing.

the whole interview is here.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject:

hope there will be a french translation.

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