Bliss

Bliss

Bliss is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award. Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack. On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he has previously drifted aimiably through is in fact Hell – literally so to Harry. His wife is unfaithful with his partner. His son is selling drugs, and his daughter is a communist selling herself to buy them. In one of the novel's more shocking scenes, glimpsed through a window, incest occurs....
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Author:Peter Carey
Genre:Novel, Fiction
Year published:1981
Number of editions:10

Author of Bliss

Peter Carey
Peter Carey
Age:68
Birthplace:Bacchus Marsh

Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist. He is one of only two writers to have won the Booker Prize twice, the other being South African–born J. M. Coetzee. He won his first in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May...
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Additional works by Peter Carey
BookCopyright DateGenre
True History of the Kelly Gang Crime Fiction
Oscar and Lucinda Novel
Jack Maggs Novel
Theft: A Love Story Novel
Illywhacker 1984 Fiction
My Life as a Fake November 2003 Fiction
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories August 1980 Speculative fiction
The Big Bazoohley September 1995 Speculative fiction
Wrong about Japan
War crimes
Le chemin du paradis
Burma
Collected stories
The Internet and E-commerce
La Véritable Histoire du gang Kelly
Die wahre Geschichte von Ned Kelly und seiner Gang
Data Protection Handbook
Supergordo, El
His Illegal Self Fiction
tax inspector
Le jackpot
letter to our son
Threebies
Exotic Pleasures
Die geheimen Machenschaften des Jack Maggs
Gebrauchsanweisung für Sydney
Freedom of Information Handbook
Blackstone's Guide to the Data Protection ACT 1998
Error Humano/ Human Mistake
La Verdadera Historia de La Banda de Kelly
El Supergordo
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
The Tax Inspector Novel
30 Days in Sydney
Parrot and Olivier in America 2010 Literary fiction
Wrong about Japan Travel
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    Which year was the work "Bliss" first released to the public?
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    The work was released in 1981.
  • Q:
    The book "Bliss" is in what genre?
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    The written work is labeled as: Novel and Fiction.
  • Q:
    How long is the book: "Bliss"?
  • A:
    The book consists of 296 pages.
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    The book, "Bliss" is of which category?
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    "Bliss" is cataloged in the category: Australia

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