The Tax Inspector

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Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 0.26 kg
Dimensions 1.63 × 12.96 × 20.32 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

Canada

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Format

Paperback

Language

Publisher

Year Published

1993-1-27

Imprint

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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