![]() He fires his best client because he makes carcinogenic products (saccharin), maps out his vision of hell and abandons his job to live in a $200 a day hotel room in the Hilton, where he meets Honey Barbara, a back-to-the-earth woman who supplements her living with prostitution while her boyfriend sells drugs. While pretending to be away on a business trip, he hides in a tree and watches, upstairs, his daughter giving his son a blow job (it’s actually in exchange for drugs, but Harry does not know that), while his business partner is putting his hand up his wife’s dress downstairs. ![]() One day he dies – he has a coronary and, before he is resuscitated, has an out-of-body experience – and realises that he is actually living in hell. He is fairly contented with his lovely wife, his job running an advertising agency, his two fine children and the fact he is well liked in the community. Home » Australia » Peter Carey » Bliss Peter Carey: Blissīliss was Carey’s first novel and a very fine start it was too. ![]()
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