"A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year" "A powerful book."---Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York Times "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 Richardsons 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 "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 "[ A] profound volume. . . . [ Richardson] suggests that [ Emerson, Thoreau, and Jamess] 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 youre 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 Richardsons] final gift to the world."---Paul Krause, University Bookman "[ Richardson] chooses passages that get to the heart of each writers thinking while also yielding new angles and exposing new complexities."---Kristen Case, Thoreau Society Bulletin
