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