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  Bliss (Paperback) By (author) Peter Carey

  

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  Short Description for BlissFor the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 07 May 2009
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780571249749 ISBN 10: 0571249744
  • Sales rank: 142,303

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Full description for Bliss

• "Bliss" was Peter Carey's astonishing first novel, originally published in 1981 - a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in Hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld. As in his stories and some of his later novels, it is Peter Carey's achievement in "Bliss" to create a brilliant but totally believable fusion of ordinary experience with the crazier fantasies of the mind. This powerful and original novel is a love story about a man who misunderstands the world so totally that he almost gets it right.