This Week's Acquisitions

  • Fanny Trollope, Jessie Phillips (Nonsuch, 2006).  One of Trollope's social problem novels.
  • Jonathan Lethem, Men and Cartoons (Vintage, 2005).  Short story collection.
  • Christopher Sorrentino, Trance: A Novel (Picador, 2006).  Novel based on the abduction of Patty Hearst.
  • James Salter, Light Years (Vintage, 1995).  A slowly collapsing marriage.
  • ---, Last Night (Knopf, 2005).  More short stories.
  • Deborah Eisenberg, The Twilight of the Superheroes (FSG, 2006).  Yet more short stories.