{"product_id":"three-roads-back-9780691224305","title":"Three Roads Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"An elegant and useful rumination on resilience as a practice, achievable through study, creation, companionship, and deep reflection.\" * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\"A concise exploration of how three major 19th-century thinkers overcame the experience of personal tragedy. . . . \u003ci\u003eThree Roads Back\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Christoph Irmscher, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] extraordinarily cogent and exquisitely concise exploration of the life-affecting course of early grief.\"\u003cb\u003e---Diane Cole, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Barbara Spindel, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] slim but profoundly affecting volume.\" * Christian Science Monitor *\u003cbr\u003e\"A book worth savoring, especially if you’re grappling with grief and loss. . . . [a] beautifully authentic book. . . . Richardson is an excellent guide.\"\u003cb\u003e---Emily Blackshear, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stimulating. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThree Roads Back\u003c\/i\u003e is] a moving, candid group portrait. Fans and students of American literature will find this worth picking up.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] moving study.\"\u003cb\u003e---Gordon Fraser, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThree Roads Back\u003c\/i\u003e [is Richardson’s] final gift to the world.\"\u003cb\u003e---Paul Krause, \u003ci\u003eUniversity Bookman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The effect of this little volume, which looks hardly more than a pamphlet, is wholly out of proportion to its modest dimensions. . . . \u003ci\u003eThree Roads Back\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Banville, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403912159575,"sku":"9780691224305","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691224305.jpg?v=1730484868","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/three-roads-back-9780691224305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}