Seven Types of Ambiguity Hardcover - 2004
by Perlman, Elliot
- Used
An epic novel about obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism.
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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- Title Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Author Perlman, Elliot
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 628
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-12-16
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3753519-6
- ISBN 9781573222815 / 157322281X
- Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.36 x 1.91 in (23.88 x 16.15 x 4.85 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004045348
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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