Bliss

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/30/1996
ISBN: 9780679767190
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.13w x 0.67d