The Tax Inspector
Author(s): Peter Carey
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. THE TAX INSPECTOR is a dark and brilliant achievcement, a work of astonishing originality by one of the masters of the contemporary novel.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House Australia
- : Vintage (Australia)
- : 0.262
- : 30 September 2005
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Modern fiction
- : A823
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Peter Carey