Title Bliss / Peter Carey

Edition First Australian edition Published St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1981 1981

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Description 296pages Summary It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no longer deny the injustice around him. But before he can be redeemed, a whole new perdition awaits him in this darkly funny and prescient fable about the idiocy of defiling nature Analysis Novels in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts Notes Reprinted in 1982 Copyright © Peter Carey 1981; Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty © Penguin Group (Australia) Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 1982 winner Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1981 winner Subject Australian fiction. Death -- Fiction. Families -- Australia -- Fiction. Humorous stories, Australian. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Married men -- Fiction. Men -- Australia -- Fiction. Near-death experiences -- Fiction. Near-death experiences -- Australia -- Fiction. Suburban life -- Fiction. SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473 Genre/Form Fiction. ISBN 0702216542

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