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The Tax Inspector
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The Tax Inspector

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A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families.

The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky’s Karamazovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire, and himself into an angel. But when a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey’s hands, a masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Australia
Country
Australia
Date
3 March 2020
Pages
384
ISBN
9781760896492

A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families.

The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky’s Karamazovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire, and himself into an angel. But when a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey’s hands, a masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Australia
Country
Australia
Date
3 March 2020
Pages
384
ISBN
9781760896492

Peter Carey

Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel. Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize twice (for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang), the Commonwealth Writers' Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times (for Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs). He is an officer of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.