This playful and jazzy triad about fateful threesomes provides an engaginglypostmodern commentary on the art of storytelling classic mythology andliterature. Th... » 

This playful and jazzy triad about fateful threesomes provides an engaginglypostmodern commentary on the art of storytelling classic mythology andliterature. The first novella explores a callow undergraduates initiation intothe mysteries of sex death and the Heroic Cycle. The wandering hero of thenext tale finds an alltoofamiliar road made new by some provocative travelingcompanions. And the three sisters of the third piece recall their youthful daysof muselike services to and scandalous servicing of a mysteriously vanishedfamous novelist. These three sexy novellas prove once again that Barth is oneof the best we have when it comes to getting to the heart of the story RockyMountain News. «