![]() Carey makes of his tale an eerie tragicomedy, a novel of manners that edges, inexorably, into a chilling parable out of Edgar Allan Poe.' Newsday'A brilliant, powerful and dangerous writer. Let it bowl you over.' Philadelphia Inquirer 'Explosive and enigmatic. an absolute master of language and of storytelling.' Thomas Keneally 'A Hieronymus Bosch paintin of a book - dense, demonic, at once surreal and hyper-real. 'Peter Carey is to Sydney what Joyce was to Dublin. ![]() 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. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire, and himself into an angel. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. ![]() The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector is a wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. ![]()
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