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Bliss is the first novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. [1] . Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award. [2] Plot. Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack.
Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ is one of her first great short stories – the genre she excelled at (she never wrote a novel, and her poetry failed to make a mark on the literary world). ‘Bliss’ was first published in 1918, and is shot through with homoerotic longing and the animalistic nature of sexual desire.
Jan 1, 1981 · Peter Carey. 3.76. 3,498 ratings195 reviews. This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
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The 1918 short story ‘Bliss’ is one of the best-known and most widely studied stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). Although Mansfield never wrote a novel, her short stories helped to redefine the possibilities of the story form.
Bliss is a very fine novel indeed.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. “An eerie, compelling first novel; its characters are no less exotic and disconcerting than the colorful, lush wild life that creeps up to the edges of their suburbs.” — New Yorker.
Oct 14, 2020 · Bliss (1918) is a short story by Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923), the New Zealand-born British author recognized for revolutionizing the modern English short story form. This story is one of the works that put Manfield on the literary map as a master of the genre.
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Thirty-year old Bertha Young is overcome by a feeling of excitement, or “bliss,” while preparing to throw a dinner party for a group of her friends. Returning home in the afternoon before the party, Bertha thinks that, although she is an adult woman, she still has moments where she wants to “run instead of walk” or “take dancing steps ...
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