Winner of The Age Book of the Year in Australia, Three  Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds  himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three  dollars.  At any other time the world would have smiled on him.  But  this is the nineties and the world values other things.  A brilliantly  deft and poignant portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity,  his family, and his sense of humor in a corporate world.

Three Dollars

Literature & Fiction

PERLMAN, Elliot

Literary

Pan Books, Ltd.

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 prostitution, psychiatry and the law.

Seven Types of Ambiguity

Contemporary

Picador

From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau, there are momentous stories everywhere. But only some survive to become history. Lamont Williams is a black man from the Bronx trying to return to a normal life after serving a six-year prison term for a crime for which he was wrongly convicted. Historian Adam Zignelik is an untenured Columbia professor whose career and long-term relationship are falling apart. When Lamont Williams strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient at the hospital where he works as a janitor, he learns about the Sonderkommando--prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of the Nazi extermination camps. Meanwhile, Adam pursues a promising research topic suggested by a World War II veteran, a topic that might just save him professionally and even personally. When the lives of these two men intersect, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. The Street Sweeperis an astonishing feat of storytelling that addresses the personal and the political as it sweeps across the globe, through the seminal events of the twentieth century to the present. Honest, hypnotic and redemptive, this is a novel that explores the responsibility of the historian, the weight of history on all of us, and the crucial role that bearing witness plays in breaking the cycle of human cataclysm.

The Street Sweeper

Bond Street Books

Elliot Perlman has been acclaimed as a writer who takes us right to the heart of modern life - a world of uncertainty, downsizing, and sexual confusion. The Reasons I Won't Be Coming explores the turbulent lives of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants and murderers. An office worker discovers his lover's betrayal via e-mail. A woman hires a private detective and crawls through an urban underworld, searching for her brother. A man finds himself waking up, once again, beside the wrong person. Elliot Perman's stories dissect the way we live now: the lost opportunities, the hopes, the fears, the vagaries of desire.

Reasons I Won't Be Coming

Short Stories & Anthologies

Faber Faber Ltd

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).

Faber&Faber

Frustrated by years of unrequited love, an unemployed schoolteacher takes matters into his own hands, with unexpected repercussions, in a novel about obsessive love, told in seven parts by six different narrators whose lives have become entangled with one another. 25,000 first printing.

Riverhead Hardcover

A collection of nine short tales by the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity explores the complex worlds of such protagonists as lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and murderers, in a volume that follows such themes as betrayal and lost opportunities. 35,000 first printing.

The Reasons I Won't Be Coming

United States

Riverhead Books

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 prostitution, psychiatry and the law. Comic, poetic, and full of satiric insight, Seven Types of Ambiguity is, above all, a deeply romantic novel that speaks with unforgettable force about the redemptive power of love. The story is told in seven parts, by six different narrators, whose lives are entangled in unexpected ways. Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. Brimming with emotional, intellectual, and moral dilemmas, this novel-reminiscent of the richest fiction of the nineteenth century in its labyrinthine complexity-unfolds at a rapid-fire pace to reveal the full extent to which these people have been affected by one another and by the insecure and uncertain times in which they live. Our times, now.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Penguin Publishing Group

The stories in this collection explore the complex worlds of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and murderers. They tell of corporate betrayals and lost opportunities, and of the obsessions, hopes, fears, and vagaries of desire.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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Three Dollars

Seven Types of Ambiguity

The Street Sweeper

Reasons I Won't Be Coming

Seven Types of Ambiguity

Seven Types of Ambiguity

Seven Types of Ambiguity

The Reasons I Won't Be Coming

Seven Types of Ambiguity

The Reasons I Won't Be Coming