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IN PRAISE OF FAILURE: Four Lessons in Humility
Author: Costica Bradatan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages: 273
Price: $29.95
Failure, as Costica Bradatan puts it in his bracing new book, is good for you, but not for the reasons you might think. In Praise of Failure is maddening, disturbing, exasperating, seductive — I found myself turned around at so many points that even as I was closing in on the last chapter I wasn’t quite sure where I would land at the end.
This isn’t because the writing is convoluted; Bradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit, his every thought and sentence slipping smoothly
