Bliss |
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Author:
| Carey, Peter |
ISBN: | 978-1-299-02949-1 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $50.85 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionFor 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.