| Bliss Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679767193 ISBN-13: 9780679767190 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Fantasy - Contemporary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95035375 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.13" W x 7.92" (0.57 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |