The Tax Inspector

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367673
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tax Inspector written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307764281
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat.

Author : Frederick Busch
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0449006158
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night Inspector written by Frederick Busch and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2000-05-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also befriends a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family. Delving into the depths of this country's heart and soul, Frederick Busch's stunning novel is a gripping portrait of a nation trying to heal from the ravages of war--and of one man's attempt to recapture a taste for life through the surging currents of his own emotions, ambitions, and shattered conscience.

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787222
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bliss written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagan gifts.

Author : Ian Rankin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451649134
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Book written by Ian Rankin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth novel featuring Inspector John Rebus, available for the first time as an e-book and with an exclusive introduction by author Ian Rankin. When the Central Hotel, a place of decidedly unsavory reputation, burned to the ground in a mysterious fire, the Edinburgh police were unable to disguise their delight. That is, until a body was found in the still-smoldering ashes, charred beyond all identification but with a bullet lodged in its skull. Now it's five years later and Inspector John Rebus is following any leads in a vicious off-duty ambush that has put one of his favorite junior officers into a coma. A cheap black notebook belonging to the wounded policeman contains a cryptic allusion to the almost-forgotten blaze, but crucial pieces of the puzzle obstinately refuse to fall into place. What could young Detective Sergeant Brian Holmes have learned to render him such a threat that he must be silenced at all costs? "The past is important," Rebus hardly needs to remind himself, yet the secrets he persists in uncovering are buried in layer upon layer of sordid and evil lies.

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tax Inspector written by Peter Carey and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saul Steinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inspector written by Saul Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267130
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar and Lucinda written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

Author : United States. Internal Revenue Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Federal Income Tax for Individuals written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466873698
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of the Blind written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A December 2018 Indie Next Pick One of Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2018 Picks BookPage Best of the Year 2018 A LibraryReads Pick for November 2018 A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Winner Washington Post's 10 Books to Read This November One of PopSugar’s Best Fall Books to Curl Up With “A captivating, wintry whodunit.” —PEOPLE "A constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves." —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Kingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane? When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing. But it isn’t the only menace Gamache is facing. The investigation into what happened six months ago—the events that led to his suspension—has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception. Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers. As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And the terrible things hiding there.