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  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760896546
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

Bliss





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.

  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760896546
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

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