Three Dollars

Perlman, Elliot

ISBN 10: 0571197167 / ISBN 13: 9780571197163

Editore: Faber & Faber, 1999

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• Titolo: Three Dollars
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0571197167
• ISBN 13: 9780571197163
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 300 grammi

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Riassunto

Eddie is an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. How did he get that way? He is a university graduate. He married an attractive intelligent woman, his lover from university days. He is a good husband, father and son. At any other time the world would smile on him. But this is the nineties, and the world values other things.

Angry, yet full of unexpected humour, Three Dollars chronicles a modern breach in the social contract, and the legacy of Thatcherism and Reaganomics and its effect on people and relationships. It is about a man's attempt to retain his humanity, his family and his sense of humour in grim and pitiless times; about what happens to people in our brave new world of downsizing, outsourcing and privatising.

L'autore

Elliot Perlmanis the acclaimed author of a collection of short stories and two novels,Three Dollars, the film adaptation of which was released in 2005, andSeven Types of Ambiguity, which was a 'New York Times Notable Book' and a national bestseller in France, where it was described 'one of the best novels of recent years, a complete success'(Le Monde). A barrister, he lived in New York for many years and currently lives in Melbourne.