Bliss (SIGNED)
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy.
A darkly comic Australian novel, Bliss chronicles the surreal transformation of Harry Joy, a successful advertising executive who, after suffering a heart attack and briefly dying, returns to life convinced he is living in Hell. Peter Carey constructs a biting satirical world in which Harry's suburban existence — once seemingly perfect — is unmasked as a landscape of moral corruption, cancer-causing clients, a scheming wife, and treacherous children. With razor-sharp wit and a fabulist's imagination, the narrative illustrates how one man's brush with death becomes a radical awakening, driving him to seek genuine goodness in a society built on greed and illusion. Carey's prose moves between the grotesque and the lyrical, grounding its absurdist vision in a deeply human longing for meaning and redemption. First published in 1981, Bliss stands as a landmark of Australian fiction — a wickedly inventive story that argues, with both humor and moral urgency, that paradise must be earned rather than assumed.
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Description
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy.
A darkly comic Australian novel, Bliss chronicles the surreal transformation of Harry Joy, a successful advertising executive who, after suffering a heart attack and briefly dying, returns to life convinced he is living in Hell. Peter Carey constructs a biting satirical world in which Harry's suburban existence — once seemingly perfect — is unmasked as a landscape of moral corruption, cancer-causing clients, a scheming wife, and treacherous children. With razor-sharp wit and a fabulist's imagination, the narrative illustrates how one man's brush with death becomes a radical awakening, driving him to seek genuine goodness in a society built on greed and illusion. Carey's prose moves between the grotesque and the lyrical, grounding its absurdist vision in a deeply human longing for meaning and redemption. First published in 1981, Bliss stands as a landmark of Australian fiction — a wickedly inventive story that argues, with both humor and moral urgency, that paradise must be earned rather than assumed.
