This Week's Acquisitions
- Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (Ecco, 2008). Oates' ripped-from-the-old-headlines fictional take on the JonBenet Ramsay case. (QPB)
- Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, Blindspot; By a Lady in Disguise & A Gentleman in Exile (Spiegel & Grau, 2008). Two historians try to write a historical novel set in colonial America. (Cf. Simon Schama and Richard Rhodes.) (BOMC)
- Barry Unsworth, Land of Marvels (Nan A. Talese, 2009). WWI looms as archaeologists (and others) explore Mesopotamia. (BOMC)
- Mary Poovey, Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (Chicago, 2008). Tracks the emergence of political economy and literature as genres. (Amazon [secondhand])