3 Dollars (book review)

3 Dollars (1999) by Elliot Perlman. A man and wife, seemingly solidly middle class, live in Australia in the 1990s. As the book progresses, they both lose their jobs to "restructuring" in the new, deregulated economy. Perlman's novel is well written and amusing, at the same time taking savage swipes at 1990s society. At the end, as at the beginning, the protagonist ends up with three dollars in his pocket, hence the title. Grade: B