Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

by Daniel Mendelsohn

Book Overview

In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.

Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own--works that pondered the nature of narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394466X
• ISBN13: 9780813944661
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher