Bliss
Peter Carey, Humphrey Bower
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
3.75
· 16 ratings · 304 pages · Published: 01 Jan 1981
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.
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