| Author: | Peter Carey | ISBN: | 9780307764294 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | August 18, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter Carey |
| ISBN: | 9780307764294 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | August 18, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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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.
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