Description: Up For Sale Today is
Bliss
by
Peter Carey
Hardcover. 8vo. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. 1981. 296 pgs. Signed by Peter Carey on the title page. First Edition/First Printing.
DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bookstore stamp present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present.
For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life.
Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagant gifts.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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Peter Carey Signed Australian First Edition 1981 Bliss Hardcover w/Dustjacket.
Hardcover. 8vo. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. 1981. 296 pgs. Signed by Peter Carey on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bookstore stamp present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagant gifts.
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