{"product_id":"the-tax-inspector-peter-carey-9780143571223-peter-carey-9780143571223","title":"The Tax Inspector","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Carey's The Tax Inspector is a wickedly funny satire on modern life and families.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 automobile franchise into an empire, and himself into an angel. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Peter Carey is to Sydney what Joyce was to Dublin . . . an absolute master of language and of storytelling.'  Thomas Keneally \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'A Hieronymus Bosch painting of a book - dense, demonic, at once surreal and hyper-real . . . Let it bowl you over.'  Philadelphia Inquirer \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Explosive and enigmatic . . . stunning.  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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A brilliant, powerful and dangerous writer. Dangerous because to read his book involves a loss of innocence.' Courier-Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Crammed with biting social commentary, brimming with energy, The Tax Inspector is unsettling, devastating, and at times devastatingly funny. It dazzles and disturbs.' San Diego Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'He works a literary territory all his own, combining elements of absurdism, black humor, social satire and old-fashioned family saga. The writing conveys such authority and lyricism that it's a pleasure to enter, without a quibble, Carey's marvelously wacky profoundly moving world.' Miami Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A lurid, funny, gritty novel.' Jay McInerney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Carey's antic world recalls the pop art landscapes of Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon in their clownish instability, their subservience to a cruel destiny.' The Nation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Carey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43176613544179,"sku":"9780143571223","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780143571223.jpg?v=1662086763","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-tax-inspector-peter-carey-9780143571223-peter-carey-9780143571223","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}