The Tax Inspector

The Tax Inspector

by Peter Carey
The Tax Inspector

The Tax Inspector

by Peter Carey

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Overview

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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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307764294
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/18/2010
Series: Vintage International
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Peter Carey was born in Australia and now lives in New York.  His internationally acclaimed novel, Oscar and Lucinda, won the Booker Prize in 1988.

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Date of Birth:

May 7, 1943

Place of Birth:

Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia

Education:

Monash University (no degree)

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"Peter Carey is to Sydney what Joyce was to Dublin...An absolute master of language and of storytelling. Bet your money on him as one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium."

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