Three Dollars

From 'Australia's outstanding social novelist' ( Times Literary Supplement ) comes Three Dollars , a brilliantly deft portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity, his family and his sense of humour in grim and pitiless times: times of downsizing, outsourcing and privatising. It is about the legacy of economic rationalism and its effects on people and their relationships. Winner of the Age Book of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Prize (UK), the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Book of the Year Award and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, it has gone on to become a modern Australian classic.