For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend'and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day he h
Seven Types of Ambiguity
β Scribed by Elliot Perlman
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Australia;RHA eBooks Adult
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1742752993
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β¦ Synopsis
Is it mad to love in spite of the evidence...or just necessary?'There is ambiguity in most human relationships. Like a sequence of words, a relationship can be open to different interpretations. And when two people have differing views, not merely of the state of their relationship, but of its very nature, it can affect the entire course of their lives.'Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work school teacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY is a story of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism. It's 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. Brimming with emotional, intellectual and moral dilemmas, the page-turning story -...
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