
Bliss
Pure Ram Bhakti
Author: Swami Neelmani
Narrator: Swami Neelmani
Unabridged: 1 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 02/27/2025
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Hindu

Author: Swami Neelmani
Narrator: Swami Neelmani
Unabridged: 1 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 02/27/2025
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Hindu
Double Booker Prize winner, Peter Carey's first published work from 1981. Bliss is a darkly comic fable of what happens to Harry Joy after surviving a near fatal heart attack. He has a wife cheating with one of his colleagues, a reckless (drug dealer) son, and (a Communist) daughter who exchanges se......more
I met Peter Carey at a book signing in the small general books collection of the university textbook store that I worked at. I told him that I had skipped a "meteorology and weather" class to see him. He signed my copy of Bliss "Plenty of nice weather in this book."......more
Life was once Bliss. Life was once Hell. Life was once a marvel of richness and variety. Is life still a marvel of richness and variety? Is life still Hell? Is life still Bliss? Does life condemn us all to a Bliss/Hell of our own making? The answer is probably yes. A winner of the Miles Franklin in......more
CRITIQUE: From the Suburban to the Subtropical (to the Subversive) In the late 1970's, when this novel is set, Harry Joy owns an advertising agency in some provincial Australian city, possibly modeled on Sydney and/or Brisbane. I suspect it's Sydney (rather then Brisbane), because Harry's clients inclu......more
Just couldn't get past page 200. Starts off great-- magnificently actually-- and then degenerates into wholly unbelievable chain of events. Actually, the events are believable-- the main character nearly dies, thinks he's in hell and then is thrown by (his hideous) family into mental instituion. Tha......more