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Harvard University Press (2022), 232 pages
Description
"The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists-and readers-are fascinated by paths not taken. In an elegant and provocative rumination, Andrew H. Miller lingers with other selves, listening to what they have to say about our stories and our lives"--
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LibraryThing member andalusiac
Ugh. I was very intrigued by the theme of unled lives, but Miller lets himself wander far afield from this, meditating on life itself and the fundamentals of experience. Instead of giving the reader any room to apply these ideas to her own life, or maybe telling his story a bit more, Miller gives
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way too many examples and excerpts from poetry and fiction and more analysis and interpretation of those excerpts than even an English major is likely to tolerate. I suspect fiction is more his medium. Show Less
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English
Physical description
232 p.; 8.25 inches
ISBN
0674271181 / 9780674271180