SOURCE: "House of Cards," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. 39, No. 12, June 25, 1992, pp. 35-6.
Towers was an American educator, novelist, and critic. In the following review, he surveys Carey's previous novels and remarks favorably on The Tax Inspector, praising the novel's arresting prose and elaborate yet coherent structure.
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