The Street Sweeper (80 page)

—The Christian Science Monitor
(US)

‘A brilliant fictional commentary on the human consequences of economic rationalism. Verdict: Encore! Bravo! More please!’

—Sunday Herald Sun

‘You’d laugh out loud if it wasn’t for the lump in your throat.’

—The Adelaide Advertiser

‘A compelling story, a great drama, even a great tragedy.’

— The Sunday Age

‘Its anger and its passion mark the arrival of a writer of genuine ability.’

— The Sydney Morning Herald

‘It’s such an enormous relief to discover Elliot Perlman’s
Three Dollars
, a novel that is unequivocally about our times.’

— The Age
, Book of the Year

‘One of the year’s biggest literary finds.’

—Australian Bookseller & Publisher

‘The compassion and pertinence of Eddie Harnovey’s voice make this novel exceptional in the present Australian literary scene.’

—Australian Book Review

‘Perlman’s critique of the culture of greed is considerably composed and rewardingly memorable.’

—
The Weekend Australian

‘Elliot Perlman writes about the importance of money in everyday lives with the kind of calculating desperation we haven’t seen since the novels of Henry James.’

—
The Australian Way

Elliot Perlman’s
Three Dollars
won the
Age
Book of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Award (UK), the Fellowship of Australian Writers Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail
on Sunday
Prize (UK) as well as the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film of
Three Dollars
, which received the Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as the AFI Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His collection of stories,
The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming
, won the Steele Rudd Award for Best Australian Short Story Collection, and was a national bestseller in the US, where it was named a
New York Times Book Review
Editors’ Choice.
Seven Types of Ambiguity
was a national bestseller in France and in the US, where it was named a
New York Times Book Review
Editors’ Choice and a
New York Times Book Review
Notable Book of the Year. In Australia it was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award as well as for the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction.

Elliot Perlman is the recipient of the Queensland Premier’s Award for Advancing Public Debate and has been described by the
Times Literary Supplement
as ‘Australia’s outstanding social novelist’, by
Le Nouvel Observateur
(France) as the ‘Zola d’Australie’ and by
Lire
(France) as ‘the classic of tomorrow’, one of the ‘50 most important writers in the world’.

The Street Sweeper
is his most recent novel.