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The Tax Inspector is a 1991 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. The setting for most of the novel "is Catchprice Motors, a terminally run-down used car business founded by Frieda Catchprice in the Forties but now resembling nothing more than a 'badly tended family grave'

Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang.

The Catchprices of suburban Sydney, Australia are a family in disarray. Their lives are centered around an auto dealership on the verge of collapse despite their fiddling with the books  . Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York for twenty years.

I found The Tax Inspector very difficult to follow. Every character had their own complexities and did not get on with any other character in the book. I found the disfunctionality of all the people in the book unbelievable. This is the first Peter Carey bok I have read and was extremely disappointed. Because, as in his other books, Carey's gift for telling a good yarn, his ability to pull the reader into the eccentric milieu of his characters and make us care about those characters (even the weird ones) more than compensate for minor structural weaknesses. So that this was a very enjoyable read.

Books by peter carey. Parrot and oliver in america. True history of the kelly gang. The FAT man in history.

The glassed, marble-columned foyer remained brightly lit and unlocked and, apart from video cameras and an hourly . This was why Gia now had a key and Maria did no. n the six months she had had the key, Gia had never used it. It sat in its original envelope in the bottom of her handbag, together with its crumpled instruction sheet.

The Tax Inspector book. The Tax Inspector was an unexpected delight. I knew nothing about the book, other than that it was written by Peter Carey and was set in Australia. I was captivated from start to finish. Granny Catchprice runs her family business (and her family) with. The Catchprice family with their dark secrets and hopeless aspirations, were endlessly fascinating. Other players became embroiled in the Catchprice chaos, and the story just picked up pace.

Publisher: VINTAGE, 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.

Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang.

Tax Inspector rare book for sale. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo, original half red cloth, original dust jacket. From acclaimed Australian novelist Carey, a brilliantly realized, dark comedic story of a dysfunctional but ingenuous family. Most of the Catchprice family, including charismatic matriarch Frieda, live on the premises of their failing GM dealership in the Sydney suburbs.