The Tax Inspector Paperback - 1993
by Peter Carey
A combustibly funny, harrowing and utterly original novel from the internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda. Granny Catchprice runs her family business--and her family--with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. But a very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office turns the family upside down in this darkly comic masterpiece.
From the jacket flap
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.
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"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title The Tax Inspector
- Author Peter Carey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-01-04
- ISBN 9780679735984 / 0679735984
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.22 x 0.68 in (20.27 x 13.26 x 1.73 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92056375
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 01/04/1993, Page 0
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