Seven Types Of Ambiguity
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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A sweeping work of literary fiction, Seven Types of Ambiguity chronicles the psychological and emotional fallout that erupts when a troubled man kidnaps a child in an act of desperate obsession over a lost love. Elliot Perlman constructs the narrative through seven distinct perspectives — each character offering their own unreliable, self-serving account of the same events — a structure that brilliantly mirrors the ambiguity of human perception and memory. The novel presents a searing indictment of modern Australian society, dissecting class, mental illness, infidelity, and the commodification of human relationships with unflinching intelligence. Perlman's prose is dense, ambitious, and deeply empathetic, drawing comparisons to the great social novels of the nineteenth century while remaining urgently contemporary. The result is a morally complex and emotionally devastating portrait of people struggling to understand themselves and one another in a world that resists easy interpretation.
Author: Elliot Perlman
Format: Paperback
Published: 2003, Picador
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A sweeping work of literary fiction, Seven Types of Ambiguity chronicles the psychological and emotional fallout that erupts when a troubled man kidnaps a child in an act of desperate obsession over a lost love. Elliot Perlman constructs the narrative through seven distinct perspectives — each character offering their own unreliable, self-serving account of the same events — a structure that brilliantly mirrors the ambiguity of human perception and memory. The novel presents a searing indictment of modern Australian society, dissecting class, mental illness, infidelity, and the commodification of human relationships with unflinching intelligence. Perlman's prose is dense, ambitious, and deeply empathetic, drawing comparisons to the great social novels of the nineteenth century while remaining urgently contemporary. The result is a morally complex and emotionally devastating portrait of people struggling to understand themselves and one another in a world that resists easy interpretation.