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The Tax Inspector is a 1991 novel by Peter Carey, published in Australia by the University of Queensland Press, in the UK by Faber & Faber and, at the start of 1992, by A. A. Knopf in the US. Its barbed portrayal of a dysfunctional New South Wales family brought the author strong national criticism.
- Peter Carey
- 1991
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.
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The Tax Inspector. novel by Carey. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Peter Carey. His other works included The Tax Inspector (1991), The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994), Jack Maggs (1997), and True History of the Kelly Gang (2000; film 2019), a fictional account of the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
the Tax Inspector is Carey’s most savage novel to date, and it captures Marx’s vision of the ravening effects of capital. The book takes us full circle back to the power-crazed psychopathic business world of ‘War Crimes’, but with the unsettling awareness that this is no longer fantasy.
Books. The Tax Inspector. Peter Carey. Knopf, 1992 - Fiction - 279 pages. From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business--and her family--with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of...
the tax inspector 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 ...
17 de jan. de 1992 · When young Benny, Mort's abused and troubled son, decides to transform his life and become an ``Angel of Plagues,'' catharsis is inevitable. But the actual catalyst is provided by pregnant and unmarried Maria, the tax collector who comes to audit the books.
