The Tax Inspector
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The Tax Inspector is a dark and brilliant achievement, a work of astonishing originality by one of the masters of the contemporary novel. 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.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 131mm x 198mm, 262 g
Published: 2005, Random House Australia, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
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The Tax Inspector is a dark and brilliant achievement, a work of astonishing originality by one of the masters of the contemporary novel. 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