The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(This post brought to you by the annual trip to Acres of Books.)

  • Jane Urquhart, Changing Heaven (Godine, 1993).  Modern romance meets Wuthering Heights, complete with the spirit of Emily Bronte.
  • Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (Penguin, 1995).  A woman remembers/invents her life.
  • Peter Doyle, John Vernon (Random House, 1991).  Picaresque novel involving the search for Napoleon's missing, er, appendage.
  • Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (Perennial, 1994).  Writer tries to come to terms with her life.
  • Marina Warner, In a Dark Wood (Vintage, 1992).  Literature and travel, plus an unhappy Jesuit.
  • Mark Slouka, God's Fool (Vintage, 1993).  Chang and Eng.
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