| Author: | Peter Carey | ISBN: | 9780307787224 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | July 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter Carey |
| ISBN: | 9780307787224 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | July 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
