Synopses & Reviews
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 froma writer of extravagant gifts.
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"Poses the biggest questions about life, death and the twilight state of existence in the weirdest way. Bliss fulminates on the toxic dangers of technology and moral compromise [and] has big, randy dreams about its hero's search for a bucolic heaven on earth." Time
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"Arresting...an icy, stealthily paced comedy. We're in the hands of an accomplished satirist [who is] very, very good." Newsweek
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"Beautiful. It is a real tribute to Peter Carey that you're scarcely aware of him....Enchanting." Los Angeles Times Book Review