The Tax Inspector (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679735984)

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.

Author: Peter Carey
ISBN-10: 0679735984
ISBN-13: 9780679735984
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/04/1993
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/04/1993