Bliss: Winner Of The Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981

Author: Peter Carey

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  • : 9780702227592
  • : University of Queensland Press
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  • : August 1997
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Barcode 9780702227592
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Local Description

Reprint. A paperback copy in very good, unmarked condition.

Description

For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhabited storytelling from a writer of extravagant gifts.