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1981 novel by Peter Carey
Bliss novel by Australian writer Peter Carey .[1] Miles Franklin Award .[2]
Written as a dark, comic fable , the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack . On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he has previously drifted amiably through is in fact Hell – literally so to Harry. His wife is unfaithful, while his son is selling drugs, and his daughter is a communist selling herself to buy them. In one of the novel's more shocking scenes, glimpsed through a window, incest occurs.
Redemption comes in the form of Honey Barbara – a pantheist , healer and prostitute. In the words of the book's blurb "Honey is to Harry as Isis is to Osiris . Together they conquer Hell and retire to the forest where their children inherit the legend of paradise regained." But Harry must die for a second time to be truly saved.
Adaptations [ edit ]
In 1985 Bliss was adapted into a film of the same name , directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Barry Otto .[3]
Commissioned by Opera Australia , Brett Dean and Amanda Holden wrote an opera of the same name , which premiered in March 2010 at the Sydney Opera House , directed by Neil Armfield , conducted by Elgar Howarth , and featuring Peter Coleman-Wright as Harry Joy.
Tom Wright adapted in 2018 a stage version for the Malthouse Theatre , Melbourne, and the Belvoir , Sydney.[4]
Australian singer-songwriter James Gabriel Keogh took his stage name Vance Joy from Harry Joy's grandfather in this novel.[5]
References [ edit ]
^ "Bliss (1985)" . IDMB. Retrieved 16 April 2024 .
^ "Review: Bliss at Malthouse Theatre" by Jess Zintschenko, performing.artshub.com.au, 11 May 2018
^ "Vance Joy Chose His Stage Name to 'Conjure Up a Cool Little World' for Himself" , ABC News Radio , 26 March 2015
^ "Austlit — Christina Stead Prize 1982" . Austlit. Retrieved 16 April 2024 .
^ Prizes , petercareybooks.com
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