Where Three Roads Meet（ISBN=9780618773428）

　　The first novella, "Tell Me," explores a callow undergraduate's initiation into the mysteries of sex, death, and the Heroic Cycle. The second novella, "I've Been Told," traces no less than the history of storytelling and examines innocence and modernity, ignorance and self-consciousness. And the three elderly sisters of the third novella, "As I Was Saying . . . ," record an oral history of their youthful muse-like services to (and servicings of) a subsequently notorious and now mysteriously vanished novelist. Sexy, humorous, and brimming with Barth's deep intelligence and playful irreverence, Where Three Roads Meet will surely delight loyal fans and draw new ones.

　　JOHN BARTH is the author of numerous works of fiction, including "The Sot-Weed Factor", "The Tidewater Tales", "Lost in the Funhouse", "The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor", the National Book Award winner "Chimera", and most recently "The Book of Ten Nights and a Night". He taught for many years in the writing program at Johns Hopkins University.

Tell Me
I've Been Told:A Story's
As I Was Saying