| The Tax Inspector Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679735984 ISBN-13: 9780679735984 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: 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. -- "From the Hardcover edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92056375 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.22" W x 7.98" (0.54 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Granny Catchprice runs her family business (and her family) with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing Country & 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. |