This Week's Acquisitions
- Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (ReganBooks, 1999). Sets the Cinderella story in 17th-century Holland.
- Kathryn Davis, Versailles (Back Bay, 2002). Revisionist take on Marie Antoinette.
- John Banville, Eclipse (Vintage, 2000). Failed actor (and failed other things) sees ghosts, of a sort.