Failure: An Autobiography

About this book

This witty provocative and utterly honest exploration of the personal landscape of failure in a larger philosophical context will change the way readers view their own lives. The authors own struggles are chronicled from trying to fit in at his posh prep school to dealing with his rejection from Harvard to making peace with his failure as an academic and betraying his beloved wife after she was diagnosed with cancer. By breaking his silence and examining his own enduring sense of failure he confronts the terrifying fear of failurea universal feeling everyone can relate to.