Bliss
- Authors
- Carey, Peter
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Tags
- australia - fiction , humorous stories , literary , men , suburban life - fiction , humorous , cfc , family , screenplays , near-death experiences - fiction , domestic fiction , suburban life , families , performing arts , near-death experiences , fiction , australia
- ISBN
- 9780679767190
- Date
- 1981-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.26 MB
- Lang
- en
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 uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagan gifts.