Three Thousand Dollars (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Lipsky
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: 1977-1988
- Setting: New York City and the northeastern United States
- Principal Characters: Richard Freely, Joan Freely, Ross Tifton, Tom Creely
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Communication, Social life, 1980’s, Divorce, Television or television broadcasting, Colleges or universities, Telecommunication
- Locales: New York, NY, Northeast (U.S.)
As a collection of the first work of a young contemporary writer, David Lipsky’s Three Thousand Dollars generally succeeds in presenting a vivid artistic rendition of the experience of growing up, attending college, and leaving college in the northeastern United States in the 1980’s. Five of the stories center on the same character, Richard Freely, and the protagonists of the remaining stories might be described as fictional extensions of Freely’s personality—they are, in effect, variations on the same theme, and they live through the same experiences with which Richard...
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