{"product_id":"three-rings-daniel-mendelsohn-9780813944661","title":"Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eThree Rings\u003c\/i\u003e 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 itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, \u003ci\u003eMimesis, \u003c\/i\u003e in Istanbul... Fran輟is F駭elon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Telemachus\u003c\/i\u003e--a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years--resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn's struggles to write two of his own books--a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e with his elderly father--that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As \u003ci\u003eThree Rings\u003c\/i\u003e moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Mendelsohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081394466X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813944661\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2020","brand":"Daniel Mendelsohn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051649102079,"sku":"9780813944661","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d91c02f8-833d-4158-9299-b2affd70691a.jpg?v=1685014345","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-rings-daniel-mendelsohn-9780813944661","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}