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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