{"product_id":"2026600000522-secondhand-bliss","title":"Bliss (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA darkly comic Australian novel, Bliss chronicles the surreal transformation of Harry Joy, a successful advertising executive who, after suffering a heart attack and briefly dying, returns to life convinced he is living in Hell. Peter Carey constructs a biting satirical world in which Harry's suburban existence — once seemingly perfect — is unmasked as a landscape of moral corruption, cancer-causing clients, a scheming wife, and treacherous children. With razor-sharp wit and a fabulist's imagination, the narrative illustrates how one man's brush with death becomes a radical awakening, driving him to seek genuine goodness in a society built on greed and illusion. Carey's prose moves between the grotesque and the lyrical, grounding its absurdist vision in a deeply human longing for meaning and redemption. First published in 1981, Bliss stands as a landmark of Australian fiction — a wickedly inventive story that argues, with both humor and moral urgency, that paradise must be earned rather than assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48763138605275,"sku":"2026600000522-SECONDHAND","price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/93ff0002-1b3c-4333-a709-77e82c05a7b0.png?v=1778499179","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000522-secondhand-bliss","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}