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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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""The Tax Inspector is a major work in style and vision...[Carey is] in the prime of his creative life..." --"The Montreal Gazette
"The sheer exuberance and heightened visual power of Mr. Carey's prose is, sentence by sentence, as brilliant and pleasurable as ever, no matter how dark his vision." --"The Globe and Mail
""The Tax Inspector is a lurid, funny, gritty novel." --"Jay McInerney
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"The sheer exuberance and heightened visual power of Mr. Carey's prose is, sentence by sentence, as brilliant and pleasurable as ever, no matter how dark his vision." --"The Globe and Mail
""The Tax Inspector is a lurid, funny, gritty novel." --"Jay McInerney
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""The Tax Inspector" is a major work in style and vision...[Carey is] in the prime of his creative life..." --"The Montreal Gazette
""The sheer exuberance and heightened visual power of Mr. Carey's prose is, sentence by sentence, as brilliant and pleasurable as ever, no matter how dark his vision." --"The Globe and Mail
"""The Tax Inspector" is a lurid, funny, gritty novel." --"Jay McInerney
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"From the Hardcover edition."
"Fascinating and refreshing...brilliant." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Glorious entertainment, storytelling at its best, a piece of richly comic invention...mesmerizing." --"Boston Globe"
"[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"
Tax Inspector is an entertaining novel by Peter Carey, winner of the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda in 1988 and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang.
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