Saddest...wow. I have to go with my favorite, All The King's Men. Not
because the antihero dies but because the narrator has been complicit in
the destruction of many lives--including his best friend's and his
present wife's--and has escaped to tell thee. "It all could have been
different." No it couldn't because people have the cat-gene--putting a
paw into a flame is irresistible. I believe Murray Krieger (anyone
remember stodgy old Murray?) listed it in his Tragic Vision, and I don't
think he missed the target. There's an inevitability that is powered by
human will and ambition in that novel.
I used to read it once a year. After many years I reread it this summer
and found it better than I remembered.
ken
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Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
"It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to
laugh at that man."
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