This Week's Acquisitions

(I needed to stock up on reading material for next week's plane trip.)

• Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (Penguin, 2006).  Young woman engages in social climbing, destroys husbands. 
• Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2004).  Love and the atom bomb.
• Claire Messud, The Last Life: A Novel (Harvest/HBJ, 2000).  Reverberations of a late-night shooting.