Knowing
Frank Kermode
- Bliss by Peter Carey
Faber, 296 pp, £6.50, November 1981, ISBN 0 571 11769 4 - Exotic Pleasures by Peter Carey
Picador, 192 pp, £1.95, October 1981, ISBN 0 330 26550 4
When I started reading Bliss I hadn’t read Mr Carey’s first book, The Fat Man in History, though like everybody else I had heard the stories acclaimed in terms which made the prospect of his first novel very attractive. It is therefore both surprising and regrettable that I have to say that Bliss is a bad novel, though by a talented author.
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