THREE DOLLARS
by PERLMAN, ELLIOT
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0571233872
- ISBN 13
- 9780571233878
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, 2006. Very Good+. Eddie is an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thir ty-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, h is 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 Do llars" 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 b rave new world of downsizing, outsourcing and privatising.
Synopsis
The long-unavailable debut novel by the bestselling author of Seven Types of Ambiguity . From celebrated author Elliot Perlman, Three Dollars is the deft, passionate portrait of a man coming to terms with his place in an increasingly hostile and corporate world, while struggling to retain his humanity, his heart, and his sense of humor.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000014676
- Title
- THREE DOLLARS
- Author
- PERLMAN, ELLIOT
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571233872
- ISBN 13
- 9780571233878
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Date Published
- 2006
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