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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.

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Title:: Bliss
Written by:: Peter Carey
Read by:: Humphrey Bower
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 11
Duration:: 12 hours 51 minutes
Published:: April 28 2018
Available Date:: April 28 2018
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489438423
Genres:: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981
Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Fiction 1982

Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time.

It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no longer deny the injustice around him. But before he can be redeemed, a whole new perdition awaits him in this darkly funny and prescient fable about the idiocy of defiling nature.

'Even better than we might have expected, a sustained and sardonic fable on the folly of being wise.'
The New Statesman

'In a single bound it has brought contemporary Australian fiction out of its last stubborn crannies of provincialism into a new universality and sophistication.'
Sydney Morning Herald