On not being someone else : tales of our unled lives
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
809.93353/MILLER,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020
©2020
©2020
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780674238084, 0674238087, 9780674238084
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
One person, two roads -- Tales of our adulthood -- All the difference
"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"--