This Week's Acquisitions
- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (Picador, 2002). Epic (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) novel set in mid-20th c. Michigan, featuring a narrator who discovers that she is not, after all, a "she."
- Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet (Picador, 1997). Young girl growing up in 1960s England finds herself trapped in "Shakespearean time warps."
- Thomas Mallon, Dewey Defeats Truman (Picador, 1997). Romance, Michigan, and the famous election of 1948.
- Andre Brink, An Instant in the Wind (Vintage, 2000). A slave and a white woman try to survive in mid-18th c. South Africa.
- Jane Urquhart, The Whirlpool (Godine, 1990). Bizarre romantic (and other) happenings around Niagara Falls in the late nineteenth century.
- Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories (Penguin, 1997). The complete stories, with an introduction by Salman Rushdie.
- Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London (Chatto and Windus, 2004). Ackroyd's most recent historical novel, about the fraught relationship between Charles and Mary Lamb.
- Susan M. Griffin, Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge, 2004). Major themes in Anglo-American anti-Catholic literature.
- Barbara Onslow, Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001). Critical and biographical study of female journalists.