The Tax Inspector

Download or read book The Tax Inspector written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.