There are often funny moments, and many tender ones, but it is overwhelmingly sad, not least because the reader knows the ending in advance so even the happy reminiscences have a doomed air about them.
On Friday, her foreign minister arrived in New York to have a doomed whinge about it to the UN, shortly after the Penguin News, the Falkland Island newspaper, uploaded a photo of the president with the file name "bitch".
Although there are plenty of good reasons to have a doom-and-gloom perspective on the space, for investors and entrepreneurs focused on boosting the quality of treatment and improving outcomes, as I wrote last week, "there's no better time to be looking at the health landscape, especially for those interested in having a hand in rebuilding a broken health system".
All his life, Redford says, "My father had a doom's eye view of taking chances.
The ensuing road to disaster has a doomed sense of inevitability, but engages the senses in overdrive.
Alif has a doomed love affair with an aristocratic woman — a relationship made more difficult by his social status and his mixed Arab-Indian ethnicity.
In "Autobiography," Carson imagines Geryon as a shy, damaged, artistic teenager with wings who has a doomed love affair with Herakles, a charismatic, selfish rebel.
The novel, meanwhile, concerns a blind jazz musician who rises to national prominence, has a doomed romance with a white woman, and subsequently suffers a nervous breakdown.
I was in a TV version of this production, and despite MacMillan's brilliance, the thing had a doomed feel about it from the first day of rehearsals.
Dee (20, guitar, furrowed brow) has a doom-croon that flares into screams in the same breath, not unlike Glenn Danzig's theatrical baritone.
