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Daniel Mendelsohn was born in Long Island and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books as well as the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review, and is contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. His previous books include the memoir The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and the international best seller 'The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million', which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Medicis, and many other honours. He teaches at Bard College.
'Exquisite ... Ornate and oneiric, the results are well worth circling and circling back to' New York Times Book Review 'As always, the author's voice blends authority with considerable warmth and charm, luring readers into his complex intellectual enthusiasms ... Three Rings, a short but profoundly moving work, clings with tenacity to a belief in the regenerative power of literature' Wall Street Journal 'Spectacular ... The reader feels the flow of a strong narrative, trusts the author's seafaring skills and embarks on a brilliant journey ... Three Rings is a glorious celebration of multiplicity, diversity, journeys, transformations and our common humanity' Times Literary Supplement 'Contained in the interwoven circles of this slim, labyrinthine book is a vision that encompasses the world. Part dirge, part memoir, part exegesis, all rhapsody Mendelsohn's anatomy of literature's subtlest pleasures is itself that subtlest of literary pleasures: a masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Homeland Elegies 'An astounding Borgesian document of clarity and brilliance. A book about telling stories that wanders down the seeming two roads of the Hebrew tradition and the classical, which, like Proust's two ways, might turn out to be one way after all. Three Rings has the keeled force of a long poem' Sebastian Barry 'Classicist, historian, memoirist, cultural critic, with consummate skill and the sharp, sympathetic eye of the poet, Daniel Mendelsohn brilliantly combines these roles. Three Rings is a masterly exegesis and demonstration of digression as a high art' Joyce Carol Oates 'Daniel Mendelsohn's Three Rings is erudition, essayism, and memoir ... This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise' Jonathan Lethem
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Volume 2: 1920-1924
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