Regret: The Persistence of the Possible

by Janet Landman

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"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads," Lillian Hellman once wrote. "It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them." Yet who in their lifetime has never regretted a lost love, a missed opportunity, a path not taken? Indeed, regret is perhaps a universal experience, but while poets and novelists have long explored its complexities, very little...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195071786

ISBN13:9780195071788

Release Date:November 1993

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.77 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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