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The Tax Inspector

The Tax Inspector

Peter Carey
3.3/5 ( ratings)
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Glorious entertainment, storytelling at its best, a piece of richly comic invention...mesmerizing."— Boston GlobeGranny Catchprice runs her family business with senility, cunning and a handbagful of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing County & Western than selling cars, while Benny Catchprice, sixteen and seriously psychopathic, wants to transform a failing auto franchise into an empire — and himself into an angel. Out of the confrontation between the Catchprices and their unwitting nemesis, a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office, Peter Carey, author of Oscar and Lucinda, creates an endlessly surprising and fearfully convincing novel."[Carey's] work has a wild, chance-taking quality that seems to put him in harmony with the spirit of this age. If he keeps on as he has, he will prove to be one of its finest novelists."— Chicago Tribune
Language
English
Pages
279
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Queensland Press
Release
January 01, 1992
ISBN
0702224243
ISBN 13
9780702224249

The Tax Inspector

Peter Carey
3.3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Glorious entertainment, storytelling at its best, a piece of richly comic invention...mesmerizing."— Boston GlobeGranny Catchprice runs her family business with senility, cunning and a handbagful of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing County & Western than selling cars, while Benny Catchprice, sixteen and seriously psychopathic, wants to transform a failing auto franchise into an empire — and himself into an angel. Out of the confrontation between the Catchprices and their unwitting nemesis, a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office, Peter Carey, author of Oscar and Lucinda, creates an endlessly surprising and fearfully convincing novel."[Carey's] work has a wild, chance-taking quality that seems to put him in harmony with the spirit of this age. If he keeps on as he has, he will prove to be one of its finest novelists."— Chicago Tribune
Language
English
Pages
279
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Queensland Press
Release
January 01, 1992
ISBN
0702224243
ISBN 13
9780702224249

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