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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Introduction
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  • Epigraph: Bite off more than you can chew,
    and then chew like hell.
    Peter Carey

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  • Appears in:
    form y separately published work icon Bliss Peter Carey , Ray Lawrence , Australia : Window III Productions , 1985 Z1360296 1985 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

    When Harry, an executive, suffers a heart attack, he experiences a brief moment of brain death, only to awaken with a far darker vision of the seemingly idyllic world that he's left behind. In quick succession, he learns that his wife is cheating on him, his son has become a drug dealer, and his daughter is a junkie. Even his perfect career has become a nightmare, as he discovers that his latest client is, in fact, a heartless, deadly polluter. Enraged, Harry is determined to live a morally righteous life, a notion that proves anathema to everyone around him.

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1986     pg. 9-22
  • Appears in:
    form y separately published work icon Bliss Peter Carey , Ray Lawrence , Australia : Window III Productions , 1985 Z1360296 1985 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

    When Harry, an executive, suffers a heart attack, he experiences a brief moment of brain death, only to awaken with a far darker vision of the seemingly idyllic world that he's left behind. In quick succession, he learns that his wife is cheating on him, his son has become a drug dealer, and his daughter is a junkie. Even his perfect career has become a nightmare, as he discovers that his latest client is, in fact, a heartless, deadly polluter. Enraged, Harry is determined to live a morally righteous life, a notion that proves anathema to everyone around him.

    London : Faber , 1986     pg. 9-22
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  • Bliss Peter Carey , 1981 single work novel
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