![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of the novel is concerned, min the main, with Harry’s response to his new found insights into the evil and hypocrisy which everyone else takes for granted. “That there were many worlds, layer upon layer, as thin as filo pastry.”įor a time he is completely at peace, but the possibility that a corresponding world of terror may exist sends him fleeing back to his body as it is being carried out the front gate. Harry, however, suffers a heart attack and lies in his backyard, clinically dead for nine minutes. The novel is basically the story of Harry Joy who, like Carey, is in is late thirties and involved in the running of a moderately successful advertising company. Once again Carey won me over in spite of myself. As a result I approached Bliss in a critical frame of mind. Despite this I enjoyed his first two books of short stories, though at times I doubted his motives. I have never been able to fully reconcile his role in advertising with his reputation as one of Australia’s leading younger writers. But even before the literary establishment began its fanfare I was suspicious of Carey’s novel. Its publication was preceded bu profiles of Carey in both The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, both of which later gave the book good reviews. Peter Carey’s first novel, Bliss, must have been one of the most eagerly awaited books of last year. ![]() Review of Bliss, By Peter Carey, University of Queensland Press, 1981. ![]()
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