Bliss — Peter Carey

Title: Bliss

Author: Peter Carey

Publisher: Picador / Pan Books

Format: Paperback

Edition: Picador edition, 1982

ISBN: 033026785X

Condition: Second-hand. Vintage paperback with light shelf wear, rubbing and marks to cover, age-toning to pages, and a previous price sticker on the rear cover. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Peter Carey’s darkly comic first novel follows Harry Joy, an advertising executive who dies briefly of a heart attack and wakes convinced that the world around him is Hell. His family, work, and comfortable life begin to appear grotesque, corrupt, and absurd, while the novel moves between satire, fantasy, black humour, and moral fable.