This Week's Acquisitions

(A departing colleague gave me some books in exchange for boxes.  Coal, Newcastle?)

• Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems II: 1976-1986 (Mariner, 1987).  As it says in the title--a small collection  of Atwood's poetry from the 70s and 80s.  (Donation from colleague)
• Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man (Harper, 2009).  Four artists, separated but linked across several decades.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur; Or, the Prince of Darkness (Penguin, 1984).  First volume of Durrell's Avignon Quartet, featuring an affair and other very odd goings-on.  (Donation from colleague)
• Louise Erdrich, Tracks (Harper, 1989).  Historical novel, set at the turn of the twentieth century, about the increasingly tense relations between Chippewa families.  (Donation from colleague)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin, 1989).  Passion persists over five decades.  (Donation from colleague)
• Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion, trans. Joel Agee (Chicago, 2006).  Two avant-garde detective novellas.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Jenny Bourne Taylor, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins (Cambridge, 2006).  Of the making of many Cambridge Companions there is no end.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Charles Gore, ed., Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation (John Murray, 1891).  Twelfth ed. of this extremely controversial collection.  More about Gore here and here.  (Samovar Books)
• ---, Roman Catholic Claims (Longmans, 1894).  Pro-"Catholicity" but not pro-Roman Catholicism.  (Samovar Books)
• Eric Reinders, Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion (U of California, 2004).  Protestants attempt to make sense of Chinese theology, with limited success.  (U of California)