The Tax Inspector

Peter Carey

$21.00
$9.98

Adding to cart… The item has been added
ISBN-13
9780679404347
citemno
285389
Author
Peter Carey
Publish Date
01/08/1992
Publisher Name
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
279
ISBN-10
0679404341
Name Source
Bowker
SKU
9780679404347

Description

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.