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The tax inspector

Pages
279
Published
1991
Language
English

Synopsis

A ruthless tax inspector's audit of a failing family business exposes decades of abuse, corruption, and desperation buried beneath the surface of the Catchprice family's crumbling empire. As the investigation closes in, the truth about each family member's past and present unravels in a series of betrayals and a desperate, violent reckoning.

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Peter Carey

Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang. He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter C...

Characters

Maria TakisProtagonist
Cathy CatchpriceSupporting
Benny CatchpriceSupporting
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