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" Where three roads meet : "
John Barth.
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BL
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978720
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b733090
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| Main Entry
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Barth, John,1930-
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Where three roads meet : : novellas /\ John Barth.
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| Publication Statement
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Boston :: Houghton Mifflin,, 2005.
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163 pages ;; 21 cm
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0618610162
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: 9780618610167
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| Contents
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Tell me -- I've been told -- As I was saying.
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| Abstract
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"From the acclaimed John Barth comes 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 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."--Jacket.
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Older women, Fiction.
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Storytelling, Fiction.
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Older women.
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Storytelling.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3552.A75W47 2005
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