Where Three Roads Meet

From the acclaimed John Barth, ""one of the greatest novelists of our time"" (Washington Post Book World) and ""a master of language"" (Chicago Sun-Times), 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, ""A