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Beautiful new paperback Faber Firsts edition to commemorate Faber's 80th Anniversary
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Peter Carey's astonishing novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Harry Joy is an advertising executive who thinks he has died and gone to Hell (and with the life and family he has that's not surprising). Harry is not in Hell though - he's simply had a heart attack followed by successful surgery. However, now his mind is in questionning and mistrusting mode he can finally see what going on in the world and how wrong some of it is. Harry tries to set about 'being Good', but that's harder than it seems.
This is an original, insightful and quirky book, positively strange in places, sometimes fun, but always poetically written. At one or two points I wondered if I was actually enjoying it, but having reached the end I'm very glad I did. Thought provoking and definitely worth a read.
This is an original, insightful and quirky book, positively strange in places, sometimes fun, but always poetically written. At one or two points I wondered if I was actually enjoying it, but having reached the end I'm very glad I did. Thought provoking and definitely worth a read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I loved this from the start. It's setting is in many ways more ordinary and simpler than many of his other novels, but this brought it home. There are some great ideas in here that leave you thinking long after you put the book down. one of my favourite novels, not just from Mr. Carey.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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In my view, this is Peter Carey's best novel. A sublime mix of social comment, wit and drama. I'm not going to say anything about the plot as it's so good I wouldn't want to spoil a single page!
Not quite as outlandish as his later novels, and all the more enjoyable for it.
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Harry Joy, who suffers a heart attack right at the beginning of the novel, is before this moment a closed-eye fun loving (and liked by everbody around him) guy with a very strange... Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2008 by Roland Freisitzer
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