Earlier today I finished reading “Seven Types of Ambiguity” by Elliot Perlman.

Posted on Amazon.Com, the following synopsis is from Publishers Weekly’s review of the novel:
By copping the title of William Empson’s classic of literary criticism, Australian writer Perlman sets a high bar for himself, but he justifies his theft with a relentlessly driven story, told from seven perspectives, about the effects of the brief abduction of six-year-old Sam Geraghty by Simon Heywood, his mother Anna’s ex-boyfriend. Charismatic, unemployed Simon is...
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