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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 -- ------------------ Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com "It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to laugh at that man."