num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: Bliss
titlecomplete: Bliss
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Modern, Contemporary, Comedy, Literary Fiction, Literature, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 3395
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Council Banjo Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage