This Week's Acquisitions
- Timothy Findley, Pilgrim (Plume, 2001). Reincarnation, schizophrenia, and Carl Jung, plus the Mona Lisa.
- Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (Amistad, 2003). In the post-WWII Caribbean, an elderly woman confesses to murder.
- Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations (Morrow, 1991). Why did a famous scientist suddenly abandon ship? (Plus music, computers, and DNA.)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Perennial, 2004). A magical realist account of one century in the imaginary village of Macondo.
- Edward P. Jones, The Known World (Amistad, 2003). The traumas of slavery in a black slaveowning family.
- E. L. Doctorow, Sweet Land Stories (Random House, 2004). Collection of five short stories.
- Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown, & Co., 2002). A dead girl watches as her family disintegrates in the wake of her murder.
- Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club (Random House, 2003). Murder and Dante's Inferno (kindly donated by DTHGRE).
- Terry Doughty, ed., Selections from the Girl's Own Paper (Broadview, 2004). An anthology of articles from the popular Victorian/Edwardian magazine.
- Christopher Lloyd, The Paintings in the Royal Collection: A Thematic Exploration (Royal Collections Publication, 2003). Examines the paintings collected by four monarchs: Charles I, George III, George IV, and Victoria.
- Venetria Patton, Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction (SUNY, 1999). The link between slavery and maternity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction; Hopkins, Morrison, Williams, etc.
- Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan, eds., Victorian Literature and the Visual Imagination (California, 1995). Portraiture, photography, illustration, etc.