There are two books with this teasing title, and in his latest
novel Australian barrister/ writer Elliot Perlman, bestselling
author of Three Dollars, moves between critic William Empson's
concern with poetry and the matter of ambiguity in human
relationships. Seven voices tell the overlapping stories.
Obsessive, idealistic Simon, suffering from years of unrequited
love, kidnaps his ex-lover's son. This incident drives the plot,
but the novel is really about society, economics, politics and the
law, and the effect they have on individuals who simply do not fit
'the system.' The setting is Melbourne, but Perlman gamely tackles
Western society as a whole, and the picture of greed and
materialism he paints is not a pretty one. Love and selflessness do
not figure largely on most people's lists: for Simon, however, they
are all-important. Perlman brings a wealth of learning to this very
solid, thought-provoking read. And there is even a complicated but
happy ending. (Kirkus UK)
At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, Seven Types
of Ambiguity is a novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive
materialism. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work
schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands,
triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated. This is
a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a
small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their
parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law.
Published to huge acclaim in the author's native Australia, Seven
Types of Ambiguity was hailed as 'a tour de force' (The Age) and
described as 'Perlman's achingly humane, richly layered and
seamlessly constructed masterpiece' (Canberra Times).
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