The tax inspector / Australian fiction. Australian fiction Family-owned business enterprises
Carey, Peter, 1943-
The tax inspector / Peter Carey. - 367 pages ; 20 cm.
Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty.
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector, with a cover by Michael Leunig The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. 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 autombile franchies into an empire, and himself into an angel. But when a beautiful and very pregnant angel 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.
General.
9780143571223
Australian fiction.
Australian fiction--20th century.
Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction.
New South Wales--Fiction.
The tax inspector / Peter Carey. - 367 pages ; 20 cm.
Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty.
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector, with a cover by Michael Leunig The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. 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 autombile franchies into an empire, and himself into an angel. But when a beautiful and very pregnant angel 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.
General.
9780143571223
Australian fiction.
Australian fiction--20th century.
Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction.
New South Wales--Fiction.