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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year"
"An elegant and useful rumination on resilience as a practice, achievable through study, creation, companionship, and deep reflection." * New Yorker *
"A concise exploration of how three major 19th-century thinkers overcame the experience of personal tragedy. . . .
Three Roads Back is Richardson’s legacy condensed, his grace note to posterity, the massive effort behind his three great books . . . refracted in the shimmering prism of a hundred pages of perfectly polished prose. . . . [A] lovely, uplifting book."
---Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal"[An] extraordinarily cogent and exquisitely concise exploration of the life-affecting course of early grief."
---Diane Cole, Washington Post"[A] profound volume. . . . [Richardson] suggests that [Emerson, Thoreau, and James’s] responses to loss can help guide modern-day readers who are navigating bereavement themselves. . . . [An] elegant and affecting book."
---Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor"[A] slim but profoundly affecting volume." * Christian Science Monitor *
"A book worth savoring, especially if you’re grappling with grief and loss. . . . [a] beautifully authentic book. . . . Richardson is an excellent guide."
---Emily Blackshear, Brooklyn Rail"Stimulating. . . . [
Three Roads Back is] a moving, candid group portrait. Fans and students of American literature will find this worth picking up." * Publishers Weekly *
"[A] remarkably rich study. . . . [Richardson] expertly frames the emotional and intellectual lives of these three significant artistic figures and demonstrates the relevance, for anyone, of what they accomplished in their profound negotiations with loss. . . . A stirring and keenly perceptive examination of bereavement and recovery." * Kirkus Reviews starred review *
"[A] moving study."
---Gordon Fraser, Times Literary Supplement"
Three Roads Back [is Richardson’s] final gift to the world."
---Paul Krause, University Bookman"The effect of this little volume, which looks hardly more than a pamphlet, is wholly out of proportion to its modest dimensions. . . .
Three Roads Back is not only a consideration of the thought and actions of a group of singular historical figures: it is also a treatise for our time."
---John Banville, New York Review of Books
