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From the National Book Award winner, three linked novellas that âwill stretch your mind, challenge your thoughts, and bend your realityâ (Charlotte Observer). John Barth, âone of the greatest novelists of our timeâ (Washington Post Book World) and âthe master of experimental fictionâ (Details), presents a lively triad of tales that delight in the many possibilities of language and its users. The first novella, âTell Me,â explores a callow undergraduateâs initiation into the mysteries of sex, death, and the Heroic Cycle. The second, âIâve Been Told,â traces no less than the history of storytelling and examines innocence and modernity, ignorance and self-consciousness. And the three elderly sisters of âAs I Was Saying . . . â record an oral history of their youthful muse-like services to (and servicing of) a subsequently notorious and now mysteriously vanished novelist. Sexy, humorous, and brimming with Barthâs deep intelligence and playful irreverence, Where Three Roads Meet âemploys all of his familiar devicesâalliteration, shifts in diction and time, punsâto tease and titillate, while at the same time articulateâobliquely, sadly, angrily, gloriouslyâa farewell to language and its objects: usâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review). âBarth is markedly intelligent about language and often very funny.â âThe New York Times âPerhaps the most prodigally gifted comic novelist writing in English today.â âNewsweek |
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