Where Three Roads Meet

From the National Book Award winner, three linked novellas that “will stretch your mind, challenge your thoughts, and bend your reality” ( Charlotte Observer ). John Barth, “one of the greatest novelists of our time” ( Washington Post Book World ) and “the master of experimental fiction” ( Details ), presents a lively triad of tales that delight in the many possibilities of language and its users. The first novella, “Tell Me,” explores a callow undergraduate’s initiation into the mysteries of se