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Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Author: Elliot Perlman
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 prostitutio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739453803
ISBN-10: 0739453807
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 624
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4.6 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Great read...an interesting challange...very momentous...I am sad to say, the ending was a let down.
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great book! about everything, but very subtle... excellent read.
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consequences of unrequited love. Simons psychiatrists monologue sets the stage for following narrators, who simultaneously move the story forward, confuse our understanding of events, and bare their souls. The ambitious novel is many things (too many?) at once: a psychodrama, social critique, love story, courtroom drama, and literary thriller. At heart, writes The New York Times Book Review, it invokes a Victorian novels exploration of the world through fiction. A disappointing final narrator, some implausible incidents, a self-indulgent tone, and myriad digressions bothered some critics. But in the end, Seven Types offers an illuminating story about the nature of truth.


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