The writing reflects such authority and lyricism that it’s a pleasure to enter without a quibble Carey’s marvelously wacky, profoundly moving world.” It is more accurate to say that he works a literary territory all his own, combining elements of absurdism, black humor, social satire and old-fashioned family saga. “To say that Carey’s brand of story-telling falls somewhere between the fabulistic experiment of the 1960s and the ultra-realism of the ’80s might be helpful, but it is not exactly fair. Crammed with biting social commentary, brimming with energy, The Tax Inspector is unsettling, devastating and at times devastatingly funny. It’s fun to curl up with The Tax Inspector …. “A Hieronymus Bosch painting of a book-dense, demonic, at once surreal and hyper-real.
His novel is a profane parable with a stunning moral at its heart.” “It is impossible not to admire the dedicated intimacy Carey brings to his characters. Carey’s unusual blend of violent humor, which never quite turns black but certainly passes through every shade of gray, shot through with brilliant splashes of psychedelic pink and chartreuse.” Carey’s novel is funny, some of it is ghastly, and all of it is written with vigor and snap.” The prose that won him Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize … cuts to the bone.” Only a writer as accomplished, as sure-handed as Carey, could keep these volatile elements in balance. We are often caught laughing at absurdities just before the onset of danger, before hilarity succumbs to menace.
Carey makes of his tale an eerie tragicomedy, a novel of manners that edges, inexorably, into a chilling parable out of Edgar Allan Poe.
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