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Carey, Peter. The Tax Inspector

Carey, Peter. <em>The Tax Inspector</em>

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Category: FICTION Tags: Peter Carey, The Tax Inspector, University of Queensland Press
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The Tax Inspector
by Peter Carey.

University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1992.
First paperback edition.
279pp.

Cover illustration: Craig Glasson

“The Catchprices are the sort of people you’d rather read about than spend time with, which is exactly the impulse Peter Carey plays on in his disturbing new novel. In ’The Tax Inspector,’ the Australian writer — whose previous books include ‘Illywhacker’ and the Booker Prize-winning ‘Oscar & Lucinda’ — chronicles four apocalyptic days of Catchprice domestic life and in doing so transforms the black hole these people call home into a dark mirror for the larger world outside.”
– Francine Prose, The New York Times, 12 January 1992.

Condition: Creases to bottom of the cover and curled corners. Pages are yellowed with that brittle feel of a mass-produced paperback that has spent time in the sun. Overall, a battered but still intact reading copy.

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