- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2004 · Shortlist
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Elliot Perlman (born 1964)
English editions
Written in EnglishSeven Types of Ambiguity
Riverhead Books · United States · 6 December 2005 · Paperback · 640 pages
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Picador · Australia · 2003 · 607 pages
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Faber and Faber · United Kingdom · 2003 · 607 pages
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Riverhead Books · United States · December 2004 · Hardcover · 640 pages
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Faber and Faber · United Kingdom · 2005 · 624 pages
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A schoolteacher without a job has been in love for years with a woman who does not love him. When at last he acts on his obsession, he sets in motion events that take both him and the psychiatrist treating him by surprise. Seven sections, voiced by six narrators, reveal how closely their lives are knotted together. Along the way the novel takes in loveless marriages and affairs, a young child, betting and share trading, poems and paid sex, therapy and a trial. Part suspense story and part portrait of a society, it traces how these people have marked one another, and how the anxious, uncertain present has marked them all.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Love, Crime (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2003
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
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9780330364232 (Picador, Australia)
9780571207176 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)
9781573222815 (Riverhead Books, United States)
9781594481437 (Riverhead Books, United States)
9780571207220 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)
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