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Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance.
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Bleak, grave, prestige and overwhelming.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Nick Cave
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Penguin Group UK, Black Spring Press, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780948238031
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“"It was his brother who tore the caul on that, the morning of their birth, as if that sole act of assertion was to set an inverted precedent for inertia in his life to come, Euchrid, then unnamed, clutched ahold of his brother's heels and slopped into the w"”
9/17/09 - Found a great interview on The Guardian about Nick Cave and his new book, Bunny Munro: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/sep/10/nick-cave-bunny-munro
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