"Harry Joy was to die three times, but it was his first death which was to have the greatest effect on him and it is this first death which we shall now witness."
So begins this masterpiece of illusion which marked Peter Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist. The dilemma of Harry Joy is both funny and terrifying, for Harry wakes up in Hell, tortured by those he loves, and by the dreams and nightmares he once created for profit.
