num_pages: 358
description: Winner of The Age Book of the Year in Australia, Three Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. At any other time the world would have smiled on him. But this is the nineties and the world values other things. A brilliantly deft and poignant portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity, his family, and his sense of humor in a corporate world.
language: English
title: Three Dollars
titlecomplete: Three Dollars
characters: Eddie Harnovey
genres: 20th Century, Australia, Book Club, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Relationships, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1330
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: The Age Book of the Year, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: MacMurray & Beck