The Tax Inspector (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: faded dj.
A searing portrait of suburban dysfunction, The Tax Inspector plunges the reader into the decaying world of the Catchprice family, a clan of used-car dealers whose crumbling Sydney business becomes the stage for a confrontation with secrets, trauma, and moral collapse when a pregnant tax inspector named Maria Takis arrives to audit their affairs. Peter Carey constructs a world where the mundane machinery of commerce masks something far darker — a family imprisoned by its own dysfunctional history, psychological damage, and cycles of abuse that have been passed down through generations. Carey, a two-time Booker Prize winner, brings his characteristic blend of dark satire and unflinching social realism to this 1991 novel, wielding language that is simultaneously tender and brutal, intimate and panoramic. The Tax Inspector stands as one of Australian literature's most unsettling domestic dramas, a work that holds a mirror to the anxieties of modern capitalism and the violence concealed beneath the surface of ordinary life — leaving the reader to wonder whether redemption is ever truly possible for those born into ruin.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 1991, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: faded dj.
A searing portrait of suburban dysfunction, The Tax Inspector plunges the reader into the decaying world of the Catchprice family, a clan of used-car dealers whose crumbling Sydney business becomes the stage for a confrontation with secrets, trauma, and moral collapse when a pregnant tax inspector named Maria Takis arrives to audit their affairs. Peter Carey constructs a world where the mundane machinery of commerce masks something far darker — a family imprisoned by its own dysfunctional history, psychological damage, and cycles of abuse that have been passed down through generations. Carey, a two-time Booker Prize winner, brings his characteristic blend of dark satire and unflinching social realism to this 1991 novel, wielding language that is simultaneously tender and brutal, intimate and panoramic. The Tax Inspector stands as one of Australian literature's most unsettling domestic dramas, a work that holds a mirror to the anxieties of modern capitalism and the violence concealed beneath the surface of ordinary life — leaving the reader to wonder whether redemption is ever truly possible for those born into ruin.