The Tax Inspector (Signed First American Edition)

Peter Carey

ISBN 10: 0679404341 / ISBN 13: 9780679404347

Published by Knopf (New York)., 1992

About this Item

First American Trade edition, first printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. He has signed his name only. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box.

Seller Inventory # signed-fiction-stacks-C-001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tax Inspector (Signed First American Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf (New York).
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679404341
• ISBN 13: 9780679404347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Peter Carey was born in Australia and now lives in New York.  His internationally acclaimed novel, Oscar and Lucinda, won the Booker Prize in 1988.