The Resource Bliss, Peter Carey
Bliss, Peter Carey
Resource Information
The item Bliss, Peter Carey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Bliss, Peter Carey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 400 pages
- Note
- Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty
- Isbn
- 9780143571247
- Label
- Bliss
- Title
- Bliss
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Carey
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Awards note
-
- Miles Franklin Award, 1981.
- NSW Premier's Literary Award, 1982.
- National Book Council of Australia Award, 1982.
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carey, Peter
- Index
- no index present
- Information relating to copyright status
- Copyright © Peter Carey 1981; Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty © Penguin Group (Australia)
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Carey, Peter
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Man-woman relationships
- Married men
- Death
- Suburban life
- Men
- Near-death experiences
- Families
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Bliss, Peter Carey
- Note
- Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000053868862
- Dimensions
- 19 cm.
- Extent
- 400 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143571247
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)897891991
- Label
- Bliss, Peter Carey
- Note
- Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000053868862
- Dimensions
- 19 cm.
- Extent
- 400 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143571247
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)897891991
Subject
- trueAustralian fiction
- Black humor (Literature)
- Death -- Fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- Families -- Australia -- Fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Married men -- Fiction
- Men -- Australia -- Fiction
- Near-death experiences -- Australia -- Fiction
- Suburban life -- Fiction
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