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From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business — and her family — with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire — and himself into an angel — the Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky’s Karamozovs. But when a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey’s hands, masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror.
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| Weight | 0.26 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.63 × 12.96 × 20.32 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | Canada |
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| Year Published | 1993-1-27 |
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| ISBN 10 | 0394222733 |
| About The Author | Peter Carey is the author of seven novels including the Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda. He has also written a book of short stories (The Fat Man in History) and a children’s book (The Big Bazoohley). Born in Australia in 1943, he has lived in New York City for ten years, with his wife and their two sons. |
"The Tax Inspector is a major work in style and vision…[Carey is] in the prime of his creative life…" — The Montreal Gazette"The sheer exuberance and heightened visual power of Mr. Carey's prose is, sentence by sentence, as brilliant and pleasurable as ever, no matter how dark his vision." — The Globe and Mail"The Tax Inspector is a lurid, funny, gritty novel." — Jay McInerney |
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