{"product_id":"2026600000603-secondhand-the-tax-inspector","title":"The Tax Inspector","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st us trade ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good         ,          price clipped\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA darkly comic and unsettling work of literary fiction, The Tax Inspector chronicles the collision between Maria Takis, a pregnant tax inspector conducting an audit, and the deeply dysfunctional Catchprice family, whose crumbling car dealership on the outskirts of Sydney becomes the stage for a harrowing unraveling. Peter Carey constructs a world where suburban decay, moral corruption, and desperate human longing converge with visceral intensity, presenting each member of the Catchprice clan as a portrait of fractured identity and suppressed violence. The novel unfolds with a relentless, claustrophobic tension, illustrating how the mundane machinery of bureaucracy can expose the darkest recesses of family life. Carey's prose is razor-sharp and unsentimental, grounding the surreal and grotesque in the gritty textures of contemporary Australian society. A bold and disturbing masterwork, it stands as one of the most powerful examinations of dysfunction, desire, and the corrosive weight of the past in modern Australian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755500810459,"sku":"2026600000603-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/877cb326-5254-4d38-aad3-92c09207e27b.png?v=1778221206","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000603-secondhand-the-tax-inspector","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}