y Three Dollars single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1998 1998

Adaptations

form y Three Dollars Robert Connolly , Elliot Perlman , 2005 single work film/TV

Notes

  • Discussion notes available.
  • Voted by Victorian readers as their 'all time favourite book set in Victoria', as chosen from the Reading Victoria list of 20 novels 'Set Close to Home' in the State Library of Victoria's Summer Reading Programme 2006/7.
  • Dedication: For Janine, Lena and Harry
  • Epigraph: ...a man is not a piece of fruit!...You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away. - Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman.
  • Other formats: Also braille, sound recording.

Publication Details of Earliest Known Version

Works about this Work

Now for the Movie Anneli Knight , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Author , April vol. 45 no. 1 2013;
'When the film producer calls, asking to option your book, many authors feel a shiver of excitement. Five or even ten years later, many of them are still waiting. The process of adaptation can be even more tortuous than writing a book in the first place as prominent authors tell Anneli Knight.'
'Something to Keep You Steady' : Egalitarianism and Distiction from D. H. Lawrence to Christos Tsiolkas Nicholas Birns , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009; Interpretations , July vol. 43 no. 2010;
'This essay will examine the fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Elliot Perlman, and Christos Tsiolkas with regard to their representation of Australian society, particularly in comparison to the European past and present. Its guiding dynamic will be the opposition between the egalitarian 'mateship' that D. H. lawrence found, and was discomfited by, in 1922 and the economic neoliberalism and concomitant sense of 'distinction' (to use Pierre Bourdieu's term) that Perlman and Tsiolkas see in today's Australia and to the world in which Australia manifests itself.'
Politics and Monomania Ken Gelder , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 184 2006;
The Book was Better Susan Wyndham , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 9 April 2005;
Life Not as We Know It Stephen Matchett , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 May 2005;
"Eddie, are You Kidding?" Lars Ahlstrom , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 13 no. 1 1999;

— Review of Three Dollars Elliot Perlman 1998 single work novel ;
Books in Brief Elizabeth Judd , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 22 August 1999;

— Review of Three Dollars Elliot Perlman 1998 single work novel ;
Melbourne Memories Margaret Walters , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 25 September no. 4982 1998;

— Review of Three Dollars Elliot Perlman 1998 single work novel ;
Disparate Fictions Dianne Dempsey , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 202 1998;

— Review of Three Dollars Elliot Perlman 1998 single work novel ; The Drowning Dream Peter Burke 1998 single work novel ;
Three Dollars Leaves the Rest Behind Jane Sullivan , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 July 1998;

— Review of Three Dollars Elliot Perlman 1998 single work novel ;
Now for the Movie Anneli Knight , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Author , April vol. 45 no. 1 2013;
'When the film producer calls, asking to option your book, many authors feel a shiver of excitement. Five or even ten years later, many of them are still waiting. The process of adaptation can be even more tortuous than writing a book in the first place as prominent authors tell Anneli Knight.'
A Movie for Three Dollars Lawrie Zion , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 26 October 2002;
Globalism and Its Discontents Paul Gillen , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Departures : How Australia Reinvents Itself 2002;
The article discusses economic and sociological aspects of 'globalisation' and their representation in social commentary books, and also looks at recent Australian literary texts (particularly novels) which have addressed such issues.
The World is Closing In : An Interview with Elliot Perlman Madeleine Byrne (interviewer), 2001 single work interview
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 15 no. 1 2001;
Elliot Perlman : Writer Maxine McKew , 1999 single work biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 November vol. 117 no. 6199 1999;
Subjects:
  • Families
  • Modern life
  • Time & change
  • Male / female relationships
  • Search for self identity
  • Employment
  • Urban life
Settings:
  • Melbourne Victoria