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Title	:	Seven Types of Ambiguity
Author	:	Elliot Perlman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 640 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2005 by Penguin Group USA (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Contemporary. Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction. Unfinished

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Seven Types of Ambiguity is a psychological thriller and a literary adventure of breathtaking scope. Celebrated as a novelist in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, Elliot Perlman writes of impulse and paralysis, empty marriages, lovers, gambling, and the stock market; of adult children and their parents; of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law. Comic, poetic, and full of satiric insight, Seven Types of Ambiguity is, above all, a deeply romantic novel that speaks with unforgettable force about the redemptive power of love. The story is told in seven parts, by six different narrators, whose lives are entangled in unexpected ways. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. Brimming with emotional, intellectual, and moral dilemmas, this novel-reminiscent of the richest fiction of the nineteenth century in its labyrinthine complexity-unfolds at a rapid-fire pace to reveal the full extent to which these people have been affected by one another and by the insecure and uncertain times in which they live. Our times, now.

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Original Title:	Seven Types of Ambiguity
ISBN:	1594481431 (ISBN13: 9781594481437)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2004)

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The story of a pretentious, pseudo intellectual written by a pretentious, pseudo intellectual.Said story is supposed to be told by seven different people, seven different viewpoints. At no point did any of these people feel any different from the next. Does Perlman understand that real human personalities are more than just words on a page? That they are complex, emotional beings? Apparently not.He spends page after page saying "You see..." using his one dimensional characters to blather on



Beyond masterful. Over 600 pages of intellectual, emotional and intelligent brilliance. It hurts to think how many people would not like, or even understand, this book. On page 609, there is a discussion about "unremitting acuity". There is a "division between those people who are burdened by the clarity with which they see the world and those who are not. For those who are not, no semblance of emotional statis or equilibrium is threatened only by things particular to them...But what about the

Even bitchy ole me can't find 'owt wrong with this book. It's a triumph, really. Smart without being pretentious, gripping, well written, set in one of my favourite places and the characterisation is superb, and that's understating it. Difficult to believe it's his first novel, or even his third.Out of the 20 odd books I've consumed in the last month and a half or so, this was the best. The best this year even. Maybe the best since I can remember. Wish so much there was more where that came

SEVEN Types of Ambiguity is in excess of SIX hundred pages, FIVE members gathered to discuss the book, but only FOUR managed to complete the course and get the souvenir T-shirt. TWO bottles of finest bitter were on hand to sustain the SINGLE blogger, yours truly.Elliot Perlman is an Australian, post-grunge (!) author and barrister. The proposer informed us that in this context, Grunge refers to an Australian literary genre concerned with dissatisfied and disenfranchised young people living in

Seven Types of Ambiguity is, without question, one of the best novels I have ever read. With that said, I am having a difficult time coming up with a way to describe what it's about without giving too much away. At its center, there's a kidnapping, but to say that this novel is about kidnapping is akin to saying that Don Quixote is about windmills. There is a kidnapping, yes, but the true heart of this novel is in the characters and their varied reactions to it.Told in seven chapters, each

This was definitely a page turner of a book. It is split into 7 parts - with 6 different narrators. Of course, all these 6 narrators are linked to each other, whether they know it or not. What I appreciated about this book: I love a story told from different perspectives. It's so intriguing to see how a different character views the same relationship or same scenario. It brings the world to life in a more accurate way: we each experience it differently. It also means you avoid boredom, as a new