![]() In 1985 Bliss was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Barry Otto. 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. In the words of the book's blurb "Honey is to Harry as Isis is to Osiris. Redemption comes in the form of Honey Barbara – a pantheist, healer and prostitute. In one of the novel's more shocking scenes, glimpsed through a window, incest occurs. His wife is unfaithful, while his son is selling drugs, and his daughter is a communist selling herself to buy them. On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he has previously drifted amiably through is in fact Hell – literally so to Harry. Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack. ![]() Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award. ![]() ![]() Bliss is the first novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. ![]()
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