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Title	:	Seven Types of Ambiguity
Author	:	Elliot Perlman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

Seven Types of Ambiguity

Elliot Perlman

Paperback | Pages: 640 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 4538 Users | 518 Reviews

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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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I can't deny I enjoyed this book. Well, sort of. It is very well written and its author manages to keep up the narrative flow for the best part of its 600+ pages. Having the story unfold through the prism of different characters is not an original find, but a classic narrative device that is very effectively deployed here by Elliot Perlman. Each of the sections really breathes the spirit of the narrator. The spiritual and emotional wasteland of Joe's mind, Mitch's staccato intelligence, the

"There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations."The complexity of human relationships makes it possible for two people who went through the same experience to perceive and describe it in different ways.Seven Types of Ambiguity brings all the perspectives together to try to get a look at the whole picture.Simon Heywood is an unemployed teacher who decides to seek

If I'd had to guess, I would have said 'tour de force' is one of those expressions we use, but the French don't. Not that we do use it, it's one of those expressions you can't use because it's been watered down in that way, you know. The coffee is awesome. That kind of way.To my surprise, however, I see this book, which the French love, described by them as a 'tour de force'. I can't help thinking that when the French use this expression they probably don't mean it is a trivial thing, slightly

A gripping and hard to put down page-turner! Like someone in my reading group said, this book was like reading juicy gossip, but only more so since you also get a view into what each person is thinking. Each part is told from a different character's POV, so once you have an impression of someone, that impression can easily change once the same character is viewed from another POV - very interesting way of presenting a story. I actually give it 4 1/2 stars, just short of 5 only because those are

I couldn't stop reading this book. The only thing I didn't like was why every character chose to spend time with Angelique exclusively, when surely there were many other options. Then they all conveniently had the same psychiatrist too, but I guess there would be gaps in the story if not. It made me feel frustrated at the end, but that's the point of the book as far as I can gather. Why does anybody do anything they do? 😆 I will read some of his other books for sure and try to get the tv series

I wasnt really counting, but seven is a plausible tally for the types of ambiguity put forth here. I bet a lot of novels these days feature that many just to maintain their modern lit cred. Whats unambiguous is that there were seven parts to the book with seven different narrators, each with a key part of the story to tell. It centers around Simon who is still madly in love with Anna, an ex-girlfriend who broke up with him 10 years ago. Hes a hopeless romantic, but one infused with enough

Akira Korosawa's film Rashomon is about a crime that is witnessed by several individuals who all have credible but polarized viewpoints of the event. SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY is an intellectual Rashomonian potboiler, a colossal coil of colliding and deviating entanglements. However, we KNOW how the crime occurred. But do we really know who is guilty, beyond the obvious defendant?It is a world of contrasts and overlaps, of paradoxes and semblances, of poetry and corporate shenanigans, gambling